C linicians evaluating patients with heart failure will observe that some individuals will develop, in the course of their examination, central apnea (CA) with a waxing and waning pattern of breathing. Thus, in contrast to obstructive apnea, an exclusively sleep-related event, CA with CheyneStokes respiration (CSR) also can emerge during wakefulness, signaling in general low cardiac output (1), high filling pressures with impaired left atrial phasic function (2), and an ominous prognosis (3–5). Over the last 5 decades, cardiologists have become increasingly comfortable acquiring and interpreting ambulatory recordings of heart rate and blood pressure. With greater recent recognition of the prevalence and clinical import of central sleep apnea as a comorbidity contributing to cardiovascular events and with an increasing number of proposed treatment options (4), the development and deployment of methods to record breathing patterns over 24 h could be viewed as a logical addition to our investigative repertoire.

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心力衰竭中的动态呼吸暂停监测

临床医师对心力衰竭患者进行评估时会观察到，一些个体在检查过程中会出现中枢性呼吸暂停 (CA)，呼吸模式有增有减。因此，与阻塞性呼吸暂停（一种完全与睡眠相关的事件）相反，在清醒期间也可能出现带有 CheyneStokes 呼吸 (CSR) 的 CA，发出一般低心输出量 (1)、高充盈压和左心房相位功能受损 (2) ，以及不祥的预后（3-5）。在过去的 5 年里，心脏病专家越来越习惯于获取和解释心率和血压的动态记录。