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Card Fail Rev. 2015 Apr;1(1):16-24. doi: 10.15420/cfr.2015.01.01.16.

Sleep-disordered Breathing in Heart Failure - Current State of the Art.

Cardiac failure review

Martin R Cowie, Holger Woehrle, Olaf Oldenburg, Thibaud Damy, Peter van der Meer, Erland Erdman, Marco Metra, Faiez Zannad, Jean-Noel Trochu, Lars Gullestad, Michael Fu, Michael Böhm, Angelo Auricchio, Patrick Levy

Affiliations

  1. Imperial College London, London, UK.
  2. ResMed Science Centre, ResMed Europe, Munich, Germany.
  3. Heart and Diabetes Center North Rhine-Westphalia, Ruhr University Bochum, Bad Oeynhausen, Germany.
  4. Henri Mondor Hospital, Créteil, France.
  5. University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
  6. University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
  7. University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.
  8. Academic Hospital (CHU), Nancy, France.
  9. University Hospital (CHU), Nantes, France.
  10. Oslo University Hospital, Rikshospitalet, Norway.
  11. Sahlgrenska University Hospital/östra Hospital, Göteborg, Sweden.
  12. University of the Saarland, Hamburg, Germany.
  13. Fondazione Cardiocentro Ticino, Lugano, Switzerland.
  14. University Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France.

PMID: 28785426 PMCID: PMC5491026 DOI: 10.15420/cfr.2015.01.01.16

Abstract

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), either obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) or central sleep apnoea (CSA)/Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR) and often a combination of the two, is highly prevalent in patients with heart failure (HF), is associated with reduced functional capacity and quality of life, and has a negative prognostic impact. European HF guidelines identify that sleep apnoea is of concern in patients with HF. Continuous positive airway pressure is the treatment of choice for OSA, and adaptive servoventilation (ASV) appears to be the most consistently effective therapy for CSA/CSR while also being able to treat concomitant obstructive events. There is a growing body of evidence that treating SDB in patients with HF, particularly using ASV for CSA/CSR, improves functional outcomes such as HF symptoms, cardiac function, cardiac disease markers, exercise tolerance and quality of life. However, conflicting results have been reported on 'hard' outcomes such as mortality and healthcare utilisation, and the influence of effectively treating SDB, including CSA/CSR, remains to be determined in randomised clinical trials. Two such trials (SERVE-HF and ADVENT-HF) in chronic stable HF and another in post-acute decompensated HF (CAT-HF) are currently underway.

Keywords: Obstructive sleep apnoea; adaptive servoventilation; central sleep apnoea; continuous positive airway pressure; heart failure

Conflict of interest statement

Disclosure Professor Cowie is co-principal investigator of the SERVE-HF study, and receives research and consultancy fees from ResMed.

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