SERVE-HF - Was Treating a Central Neurological Disturbance of Breathing Control by a Mechanism Initially Designed to Keep Open an Obstructed Airway Always Doomed to Fail?

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https://doi.org/10.17987/icfj.v4i0.184

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Sleep apnoea, Cheyne Stokes Respiration, Heart Failure

Abstract

An editorial on the results of the recent SERVE-HF trial of the treatment of central sleep apnoea in chrinic heart failure.

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2015-12-04

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Editorial