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Cheyne-Stokes breathing

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Cheyne-Stokes breathing
Internal medicine A form of recurrent apnea seen in Pts with neurologic and heart disease, characterized by regular volleys of apnea followed by regular 'crescendo-decrescendo' fluctuations in respiratory rate and tidal volume, punctuated by periodic apnea, hypo- or hyperventilation; CSB is triggered by ↑ arterial PCO2, sedatives, opiates; it is more common during sleep and at high altitudes, and seen in comas 2º to a severe neurologic insult. Cf Biot breathing.


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