NR AGWC
AU Kudo,Y.; Tamaru,F.; Motomura,N.; Yamadori,A.
TI Disappearance of sleep apnea by tracheal intubation in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease
QU Electroencephalography and Clinical Neurophysiology 1984 Sep; 58(3): 226-9
PT journal article
AB We have described a patient with Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease who showed disappearance of sleep apnea by tracheal intubation. All night polygraphic study revealed a clear correlation between the cyclic EEG change and sleep apnea. The periodic synchronous discharge (PSD) phase in EEG corresponded to the breathing phase in respiration and non-PSD phase corresponded to the apneic phase. Intratracheal intubation has completely stopped both the apnea and the cyclic EEG change. Therefore, we assumed that the PSD-non-PSD cycle in EEG might causally relate with the peripheral obstruction of the airway during sleep.
MH Aged; Brain/physiopathology; Case Report; Creutzfeldt-Jakob Syndrome/complications/*therapy; Electroencephalography; Female; Human; *Intubation, Intratracheal; Sleep Apnea Syndromes/complications/*therapy
SP englisch
PO Irland