Periodic breathing

Periodic breathing is an abnormal pattern of breathing characterized by oscillation of ventilation between hyperpnea and hypopnea (not hyperpnea and Apnea as in Cheyne-Stokes respiration) with a crescendo-decrescendo pattern in the depth of respirations, to compensate for changing serum partial pressures of oxygen and carbon dioxide.[1]

Cheyne-Stokes respiration and periodic breathing are known together as Central sleep apnoea syndrome (CSAS)[1].

References

  1. ^ a b Kumar, Parveen; Clark, Michael (2005). "13". Clinical Medicine. Sixth edition.. Elsevier Saunders. pp. 733. ISBN 0-7020-2763-4.