The Breathless Heart Apneas in Heart Failure /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Emdin, Michele (Editor), Giannoni, Alberto (Editor), Passino, Claudio (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Medicine.; Cardiology.; Respiratory organs > Diseases.; Neurology.; Medicine & Public Health.; Pneumology/Respiratory System.

This book systematically focuses on central sleep apneas, analyzing their relationship especially with heart failure and discussing recent research results and emerging treatment strategies based on feedback modulation. The opening chapters present historical background information on Cheyne-Stokes...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Historical background and glossary of the apnea phenomenon
• 2 Mechanics and chemistry of respiration in health
• 3 Hypopneas and apneas as physiological and pathological phenomena throughout life
• 4 Pathophysiology of central apneas in heart failure
• 5 The importance of visceral feedbacks: focus on chemoreceptors
• 6 The apneas before and after heart failure
• 7 Not only sleep apnea: the “awake” apneas of the failing heart
• 8 Periodic breathing during effort and central apneas in heart failure: siblings, cousins or what else?
• 9 To breath or not to breath--that is the question
• 10 Diagnostic tools: the easier, the better
• 11 Diagnostic tools: messages from implanted devices
• 12 Targeting and treating apneas
• 13 Final remarks.