European journal of heart failure
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Eur. J. Heart Fail. · Jun 2008
Adaptive servoventilation improves cardiac function in patients with chronic heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration.
Sleep disordered breathing (SDB), especially Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) is common in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). Adaptive servoventilation (ASV) was recently introduced to treat CSR in CHF. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of ASV on CSR and CHF parameters. ⋯ In selected patients with CHF and CSR, addition of ASV to standard heart failure therapy is able to improve SDB, CPX test results, LV-EF and NT-proBNP concentrations.