Demartini Zeferino, Maranha Gatto Luana Antunes, Koppe Gelson Luis, Francisco Alexandre Novicki, Guerios Enio Eduardo
Complexo Hospital de Clinicas - Universidade Federal of Parana, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Hospital Universitário Cajuru, Pontifical Catholic University of Parana - PUCPR, Curitiba, PR, Brazil.
Sleep Med X. 2020 Jul 13;2:100012. doi: 10.1016/j.sleepx.2020.100012. eCollection 2020 Dec.
Ondine's curse is one of the most enchanting mythical tales in the field of Medicine. The nymph Ondine was an immortal water spirit who became human after falling in love for a man, marrying him, and having a baby. In one of the versions of the tale, when she caught her husband sleeping with another woman, she cursed him to remain awake in order to control his own breathing. During the 19th century, the rare syndrome characterized by loss of autonomic breath control, while voluntary respiration remains intact, was cleverly named "Ondine's curse". Nowadays, the term Ondine's curse is usually associated with congenital central hypoventilation syndrome; however, in medical literature, it also designates several respiratory disorders. Here, we present a review of the myth focused on history, arts and medicine.
翁丁的诅咒是医学领域最具魅力的神话故事之一。仙女翁丁是一位不朽的水精灵，她爱上一个男人、与他结婚并生下一个孩子后变成了人类。在这个故事的一个版本中，当她发现丈夫与另一个女人睡觉时，她诅咒他必须保持清醒以控制自己的呼吸。在19世纪，这种以自主呼吸控制丧失而自主呼吸保持完好为特征的罕见综合征被巧妙地命名为“翁丁的诅咒”。如今，“翁丁的诅咒”一词通常与先天性中枢性低通气综合征相关联；然而在医学文献中，它也指几种呼吸障碍。在此，我们对这个聚焦于历史、艺术和医学的神话进行综述。
