Patel Avani R, Patel Amar R, Singh Shivank, Singh Shantanu, Khawaja Imran
Internal Medicine, Northern California Kaiser Permanente, Fremont, USA.
Internal Medicine, Maoming People's Hospital, Maoming, CHN.
Cureus. 2019 Apr 10;11(4):e4429. doi: 10.7759/cureus.4429.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is caused by intermittent episodes of partial or complete closure of the upper airway, leading to apneic episodes while the patient is asleep. Atrial fibrillation (AF) leads to more than 750,000 hospitalizations per year and accounts for an estimated 130,000 deaths each year. The death rate from AF as the primary or a contributing cause of death has been rising for more than two decades. The material reviewed in this paper focuses on the association between OSA and arrhythmias. It goes into the details of the epidemiology, pathophysiology, and types of arrhythmias and the therapies seen in association with OSA.
阻塞性睡眠呼吸暂停(OSA)是由上呼吸道部分或完全间歇性关闭引起的,导致患者在睡眠时出现呼吸暂停发作。心房颤动(AF)每年导致超过75万例住院治疗,估计每年造成13万例死亡。二十多年来,以AF作为主要或促成死亡原因的死亡率一直在上升。本文综述的资料聚焦于OSA与心律失常之间的关联。它详细阐述了心律失常的流行病学、病理生理学、类型以及与OSA相关的治疗方法。