Russamento e Apnea

1) Alcune revisioni della letteratura, con bibliografia molto completa:

• Obstructive  Sleep Apnea Caples Sean M, Apoor S. Gami,  Virend K. Somers – Focus (annals of internal medicine, 2005)
• Obstructive sleep apnoea Flemons Ward W – NEJM 2002
• Obstructive sleep apnoea Malhotra A, White DP – Lancet, 2002     (ABS)
• Sleep Apnea White David P. –  Proc Am Thorac Soc, 2006
• Pathophysiology of Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea Eckert Danny J. and Atul Malhotra – Proc Am Thorac Soc Vol 5. pp 144–153, 2008

2) Anatomia comparata : OSA e acquisizione del linguaggio

• The Great Leap Forward: the anatomic basis for the acquisition of speech and obstructive sleep apnea Davidson TM Sleep medicine, 2003

3) Informazioni cliniche, soprattutto su presentazioni atipiche della malattia:

• Adult Obstructive Sleep Apnea Pathophysiology and Diagnosis Patil Susheel P., Hartmut Schneider, Alan R. Schwartz, and Philip L. Smith Chest, 2007

4) Epidemiologia, studi sulla mortalità da OSAS e sulla correlazione con l’ipertensione arteriosa

• Mortality and apnea index in obstructive sleep apnea. Experience in 385 male patients He J, M H Kryger, F J Zorick, W Conway, and T Roth               Chest, 1988
• Sleep Disordered Breathing and Mortality: Eighteen-Year Follow-up of the Wisconsin Sleep Cohort Young Terry, Laurel Finn, Paul E. Peppard, Mariana Szklo-Coxe, Diane Austin, F. Javier Nieto, Robin Stubbs, and K. Mae Hla            Sleep, 2008
• Prospective Study of the Association between Sleep-Disordered Breathing and Hypertension Peppard Paul E., Terry Young, Mari Palta,, and James Skatrud               NEJM, 2000
• Sleep-related breathing as a of hypertension: fact or fiction? Silverberg, Donald S; Oksenberg, Arie; Iaina, Adrian                   Current opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension, 1998 No ABS
• Sleep apnea as a risk factor for hypertension Sharabi Yehonatan, Yaron Dagan and Ehud Grossman                        Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension, 2004
• Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease Somers Virend K., David P. White, Raouf Amin, William T. Abraham, Fernando Costa, Antonio Culebras, Stephen Daniels, John S. Floras, Carl E. Hunt, Lyle J. Olson, Thomas G. Pickering, Richard Russell, Mary Woo, Terry Young                           Circulation, 2008

5) OSAS e incidenti stradali:

• Sleepiness, Driving and accidents: sleep-disordered breathing and motor vehicle accidents Young T, J Blustein, L Finn, M Palta Sleep, 1997  Sleep  Vol20No8
• The association between Sleep Apnea and the risk of traffic accidents Teràn-Santos J., A. Jimenez-Gomez, J. Cordero-Guevara, and theroup Burgos-Santander                 NEJM, 1999

6) OSAS e insufficienza cardiaca

• Influence of Obstructive Sleep Apnea on Mortality in Patients With Heart Failure Wang Hanqiao, John D. Parker, Gary E. Newton, John S. Floras, Susanna Mak, Kuo-Liang Chiu, Pimon Ruttanaumpawan, George Tomlinson, Douglas Bradley, Toronto, Ontario, Canada           J Am Coll Cardiol, 2007

7) OSAS e infarto del miocardio

• Long-term cardiovascular outcomes in men with obstructive sleep apnoea-hypopnoea with or without treatment with continuous positive airway pressure: an observational study Marin J., S. Carrizo, E. Vicente, A. Agusti                                           The Lancet, Volume 365, Issue 9464, Pages 1046-1053

8) OSAS e aterosclerosi

• Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Atherosclerosis A New Paradigm Lorenzi-Filho Geraldo, Luciano F. Drager –         AJRCCM, 2007
• Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia Induces Atherosclerosis Savransky Vladimir, Ashika Nanayakkara, Jianguo Li, Shannon Bevans, Philip L. Smith, Annabelle Rodriguez, and Vsevolod Y. Polotsky – AJRCCM, 2007