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Complex sleep apnea syndrome

Overview of attention for article published in Patient preference and adherence, July 2013
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (87th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (91st percentile)

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Title
Complex sleep apnea syndrome
Published in
Patient preference and adherence, July 2013
DOI 10.2147/ppa.s46626
Pubmed ID
Authors

Juan Wang, Yan Wang, Jing Feng, Bao-yuan Chen, Jie Cao

Abstract

Complex sleep apnea syndrome (CompSAS) is a distinct form of sleep-disordered breathing characterized as central sleep apnea (CSA), and presents in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients during initial treatment with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device. The mechanisms of why CompSAS occurs are not well understood, though we have a high loop gain theory that may help to explain it. It is still controversial regarding the prevalence and the clinical significance of CompSAS. Patients with CompSAS have clinical features similar to OSA, but they do exhibit breathing patterns like CSA. In most CompSAS cases, CSA events during initial CPAP titration are transient and they may disappear after continued CPAP use for 4~8 weeks or even longer. However, the poor initial experience of CompSAS patients with CPAP may not be avoided, and nonadherence with continued therapy may often result. Treatment options like adaptive servo-ventilation are available now that may rapidly resolve the disorder and relieve the symptoms of this disease with the potential of increasing early adherence to therapy. But these approaches are associated with more expensive and complicated devices. In this review, the definition, potential plausible mechanisms, clinical characteristics, and treatment approaches of CompSAS will be summarized.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Portugal 1 3%
Unknown 36 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 6 16%
Other 4 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 4 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 3 8%
Student > Master 3 8%
Other 8 22%
Unknown 9 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 18 49%
Nursing and Health Professions 4 11%
Neuroscience 4 11%
Engineering 1 3%
Unknown 10 27%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 04 December 2021.
All research outputs
#3,059,679
of 25,584,565 outputs
Outputs from Patient preference and adherence
#148
of 1,733 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#25,050
of 207,028 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Patient preference and adherence
#4
of 37 outputs
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