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Failure of automatic control of ventilation (Ondine's curse). Report of an infant born with this syndrome and review of the literature.
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This article is published in Medicine.The article was published on 1970-11-01. It has received 342 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome.read more
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Case 2: Unexplained Hypercarbia in a Neonate in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
TL;DR: A male infant is delivered at term via lower-segment cesarean delivery with a birthweight of 3.5 kg to a 25-year-old gravida 2 woman and has repeated episodes of apnea on day 2 after birth, for which he was given pressure-synchronized intermittent mandatory ventilation with minimal settings.
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A Short Primer on Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children
TL;DR: This chapter examines the two main pathological categories of pediatric sleep-disordered breathing: central hypoventilation disorders and obstructive sleep apnea, and endeavoured to present the most up-to-date literature to enable the reader to critically appraise the available information.
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Mutations of PHOX2B Gene in Patients of Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome in Central India
TL;DR: In this paper, a hospital-based cross-sectional study was performed on patients diagnosed with obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) and CCHS in adults (named late-onset central hypovementilation syndrome), and the mutation of PHOX2B gene was studied in patients with OHS in this study.