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Cheyne Stokes respiration is an abnormal breathing pattern

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“Cheyne-Stokes respiration is an abnormal breathing pattern characterized by cyclically increasing and then decreasing tidal volumes followed by a period of apnea.”
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Summary

Cheyne‑Stokes respiration is indeed an abnormal breathing pattern in which tidal volumes gradually rise, then fall, followed by a pause of apnea. This cyclic variation of ventilation is consistently described in medical literature.

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  • Cheyne-Stokes respiration in congestive heart failure - PMC

    Cheyne-Stokes respiration is an abnormal breathing pattern which commonly occurs in patients with decompensated congestive heart failure and neurologic diseases, in whom periods of tachypnea and hyperpnea alternate with periods of apnea. In the ...

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  • Cheyne-Stokes Respirations - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf - NIH

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  • Cheyne Stokes Respirations - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf - NIH

    This can be clinically observed and documented with a cyclic variation of breathing pattern with a change in saturation from 90% to 100%. Minute ventilation is not routinely monitored during sleep studies. The hyperventilation is documented by rising and falling chest excursions and the tidal ...

  • Cheyne Stokes Respirations - StatPearls - NCBI Bookshelf

    This can be clinically observed and documented with a cyclic variation of breathing pattern with a change in saturation from 90% to 100%. Minute ventilation is not routinely monitored during sleep studies. The hyperventilation is documented by rising and falling chest excursions and the tidal ...

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  • Cheyne-Stokes Respiration - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

    Cheyne–Stokes respiration (CSR) is a form of periodic breathing characterized by apneas or hypopneas interposed by a characteristic breathing pattern that begins almost imperceptibly, waxes until a peak ventilation, and then wanes until the next respiratory event (i.e., apnea or hypopnea) ...

  • Cheyne Stokes Breathing - an overview | ScienceDirect Topics

    However, Hoffman and associates, studying patients with cardiogenic pulmonary edema, found no differences in left ventricular ejection fractions in patients with or without Cheyne–Stokes breathing.89 Hall and colleagues found that circulatory delay did correlate with Cheyne–Stokes cycle length, but not with apnea length.90 Lorenzi-Filho and co-workers showed that CO2 inhalation blocked Cheyne–Stokes breathing in patients with heart failure and argued that reduction in Paco2 sensed by peripheral chemoreceptors triggered central apneas.88 The issue of an abnormal feedback to the CNS in the genesis of respiratory oscillations was studied in animals by Cherniack91 who used the normal phrenic nerve stimulus to trigger a mechanical ventilator that had been modified so that the gain could be varied to amplify or retard the induced tidal volume triggered by the phrenic stimulus.

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