Adaptive Servo-Ventilation for Central Sleep Apnea in Systolic Heart Failure.

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Published in N Engl J Med on September 01, 2015

Authors

Martin R Cowie1, Holger Woehrle, Karl Wegscheider, Christiane Angermann, Marie-Pia d'Ortho, Erland Erdmann, Patrick Levy, Anita K Simonds, Virend K Somers, Faiez Zannad, Helmut Teschler

Author Affiliations

1: From Imperial College London (M.R.C) and Royal Brompton Hospital (A.K.S.) - both in London; ResMed Science Center, ResMed Germany, Martinsried (H.W.), Sleep and Ventilation Center Blaubeuren, Respiratory Center Ulm, Ulm (H.W.), the Department of Medical Biometry and Epidemiology, University Medical Center Eppendorf, Hamburg (K.W.), the Department of Medicine I and Comprehensive Heart Failure Center, University Hospital and University of Würzburg, Würzburg (C.A.), Heart Center, University of Cologne, Cologne (E.E.), and the Department of Pneumology, Ruhrlandklinik, West German Lung Center, University Hospital Essen, University Duisburg-Essen, Essen (H.T.) - all in Germany; University Paris Diderot, Sorbonne Paris Cité, Hôpital Bichat, Explorations Fonctionnelles, Département Hospitalo-Universitaire Fight Inflammation and Remodeling, Assistance Publique-Hôpitaux de Paris, Paris (M-P.O.), Centre Hospitalier Universitaire (CHU) de Grenoble, Grenoble, (P.L.), and INSERM, Université de Lorraine, CHU de Nancy, Nancy (F.Z.) - all in France; and the Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN (V.K.S.).

Associated clinical trials:

Effect of Adaptive Servo Ventilation (ASV) on Survival and Hospital Admissions in Heart Failure (ADVENT-HF) | NCT01128816

Treatment of Predominant Central Sleep Apnoea by Adaptive Servo Ventilation in Patients With Heart Failure (Serve-HF) | NCT00733343

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