Solin P, Snell G I, Williams T J, Naughton M T
Dept of Respiratory Medicine and Monash University Medical School, Alfred Hospital, Prahran, Victoria, Australia.
Eur Respir J. 1998 Aug;12(2):495-8. doi: 10.1183/09031936.98.12020495.
Nonhypercapnic central sleep apnoea is a disorder of respiratory control characterized by hyperventilation previously attributed to the stimulation of either pulmonary vagal afferent nerve fibres or respiratory chemoreceptors. This report describes central sleep apnoea in a patient with congestive heart failure following bilateral lung transplant in whom pulmonary vagal afferent nerve activity was absent.
