%0 Journal Article
%T MRI and polysomnographic findings of patients  affected by post-stroke sleep apnea
%A Maria Luisa Sacchetti
%A Marco Fiorelli
%A Giacomo Della Marca
%A Anna Losurdo
%A Gennaro Russo
%A Danilo Toni
%A Antonio Minni
%A Emanuele Tinelli
%A Francesca Caramia
%A Maria Teresa Di Mascio
%J Health
%P 49-56
%@ 1949-5005
%D 2013
%I Scientific Research Publishing
%R 10.4236/health.2013.58A2008
%X <p style=\"text-align:justify;\">
	<span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Aim: </span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">The aim of our study
was to</span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:;\" \"=\"\"> </span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">compare </span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">characteristics
of stroke patients who presented </span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Obstructive Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea (OSAH) </span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">to those of</span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\"> cases that presented Central Sleep Apnea/Hypopnea
(CSAH) e</span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">vents at PSG, and to
investigate relationships between the type of breathing disturb during sleep
and the location of brain damage. </span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">Methods: </span><span style=\"font-size:10.0pt;font-family:;\" \"=\"\"><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Thirty four patients were submitted to clinical, neuroradiological and
polisomnographyc study (PSG) after 4 months of stroke. A Sleep Disordered
Breathing (SDB) was diagnosed in all cases with an AHI &gt; 5. Patients were
classified as affected by predominantly OSAH (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">OSAH</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">), or </span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">predominantly
CSAH (</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">CSAH</span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">). </span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">Comparisons were made among the groups and
correlation analyses were done in each group. Significance was set at p &lt; 0.005.
Results: Twenty six patients
with ischemic strokes had a SDB during sleep (56% embolic, 31% lacunar, 8%
large artery, 8% with undetermined cause). The 61% of them showed </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">OSAH. Except for age, no statistical
differences were found between the two groups as to clinical findings, risk
factors for stroke, PSG data, or location of brain lesion. Correlation analysis
outlined that in </span><i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">p</span></i><span style=\"font-family:Verdana;\">OSAH cases the time interval from stroke to PSG (</span></span><span style=\"font-size:10pt;font-family:Verdana;\">жд</span><span
%K Sleep Apnea-Stroke
%K Magnetic Risonance Imaging-Polysomnography
%U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=35856