A Portable Device as Sleep-Screening Tool in the Identification of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Chronic Heart Failure: Which Value Should We Consider as Cutoff?

J Card Fail. 2016 Feb;22(2):166-7. doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.10.014. Epub 2015 Oct 28.

Authors

Pierluigi Carratù¹, Silvano Dragonieri¹, Onofrio Resta¹, Antonio M Esquinas²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Respiratory Diseases, University of Medicine, Bari, Italy.
² Intensive Care and Noninvasive Ventilatory Unit Hospital Morales Meseguer, Murcia, Spain.

PMID: 26521121
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2015.10.014

No abstract available

Publication types

Letter
Comment

MeSH terms

Female
Heart Failure / diagnosis*
Heart Failure / epidemiology*
Humans
Male
Polysomnography / standards*
Sleep Apnea Syndromes / diagnosis*
Sleep Apnea Syndromes / epidemiology*
Sleep Stages*