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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.

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Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome: Update, Diagnosis, and Management

TL;DR: Children with CCHS do not typically increase their respiratory rate or have dyspnea in response to pneumonia (or the resulting hypoxemia and hypercarbia) and the absence of these symptoms does not preclude severe respiratory compromise.
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Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome: a life-threatening cause of neonatal apnoea.

TL;DR: In this article, a rare case of Congenital Central Hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) was diagnosed in a term newborn who presented with persistent apnoea in the first hours of life.

Ondine's curse: anesthesia for laparoscopic implantation of a diaphragm pacing stimulation system Le syndrome d'Ondine: l'anesthesie pour l'implantation par laparoscopie d'un stimulateur phrenique intradiaphragmatique

TL;DR: In this article, the authors described the perioperative management of an adult patient with acquired central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome (CAHS) who presented for laparoscopic diaphragm pacing stimulation system insertion.
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