Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome

Ondine's curse

[ondēnz′]

Etymology: L, Undine, mythic water nymph; ME, curs, invocation

apnea caused by loss of automatic control of respiration. The term refers to a syndrome in patients with a defect in central chemoreceptor responsiveness to carbon dioxide. The patient is able to breathe voluntarily but has hypercapnia and hypoxemia. Ondine's curse may result in pickwickian syndrome or sleep apnea and may be one cause of sudden infant death syndrome. The syndrome may occur as a result of opioid or other drug overdose, after bulbar poliomyelitis or encephalitis, or after surgery involving the brainstem or the higher segments of the cervical spinal cord, as in cervical cordotomy for intractable pain.

Ondine's Curse

A popular term for
(1) Primary alveolar (congenital central) hypoventilation (central apnoea)
(2) Sleep apnoea syndrome

Ondine's curse [on´dēnz]

a condition in which patients have lost autonomic control of respiration and become apneic upon falling asleep; it is due to lesions or surgery of the high spinal cord or brainstem; named after Ondine, a water nymph in Greek mythology who caused a mortal who loved her to sleep forever.

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primary alveolar hypoventilation sleep apnea syndrome	Her condition, known as congenital central hypoventilation syndrome - which affects just 40 children in the UK - has left her parents Mihaela and Alex devastated. Home at last..baby who forgets to BREATHE; EXCLUSIVE DAILY Mirror ... by The Mirror (London, England) Maryann needs round-the-clock care, even when she is sleeping, as the congenital central hypoventilation syndrome she suffers from means she could stop breathing at any moment. YOU'RE GOING HOME, BABY; Exclusive Maryann's nine-month hell ends by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland) CONGENITAL central hypoventilation syndrome is a rare neurological disorder. DANGER BREATHING CONDITION THERE'S NO CURE FOR by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)	conformation conformational disease confounding confrontation confrontational visual field testing confusion confusion induction confusional state congener Congenic congenital congenital absence of sacrum and lumbar vertebrae congenital adrenal hyperplasia congenital afibrinogenemia congenital agranulocytosis congenital alopecia congenital amputation congenital anemia congenital anomaly congenital aspiration pneumonia Congenital Bladder Anomalies Congenital Brain Defects congenital cardiac anomaly congenital cataract congenital cataracts Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome congenital cerebral diplegia congenital cloaca congenital cyanosis congenital cyst Congenital cystic adenomatoid malformation congenital cytomegalovirus disease congenital dacryocele congenital dermal sinus Congenital diaphragmatic hernia congenital dislocation of the hip congenital dyserythropoietic anemia congenital dysphagocytosis congenital ectodermal defect congenital epulis congenital erythropoietic porphyria congenital facial diplegia congenital generalized fibromatosis Congenital Giant Nevus congenital glaucoma congenital goiter congenital gout Congenital heart defects congenital heart disease congenital hemolytic anemia congenital hemolytic jaundice	congenital atelectasis congenital atelectasis Congenital Atrioventricular Block Congenital Aural Atresia congenital axonopathy Congenital betalipoprotein deficiency syndrome Congenital betalipoprotein deficiency syndrome Congenital bilateral absence of the vas deferens Congenital Bilateral Aplasia of Vas Deferens Congenital Bilateral Perisylvian Syndrome Congenital Bile Duct Dilatation Congenital Bladder Anomalies congenital bone marrow hypoplasia congenital bone marrow hypoplasia congenital bone marrow hypoplasia Congenital Bony Nasal Stenosis congenital bovine epidermolysis congenital bovine epidermolysis Congenital Bowing of the Long Bones Congenital Brain Defects congenital bronchopulmonary foregut malformation congenital bronchopulmonary foregut malformation Congenital bullous ichthyosiform erythroderma congenital cardiac anomaly congenital cataract congenital cataract congenital cataract congenital cataract congenital cataracts Congenital Cataracts, Facial Dysmorphism, and Neuropathy Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome congenital cerebral diplegia congenital chondrosternal depression congenital chondrosternal depression congenital chondrosternal depression congenital chondrosternal depression congenital chondrosternal depression Congenital chordee Congenital chordee congenital chorioretinitis congenital chorioretinitis congenital chorioretinitis congenital cleft lip congenital cleft lip congenital cleft lip congenital cleft lip congenital cleft palate congenital cleft palate congenital cleft palate congenital cloaca Congenital Clubfoot Congenital Color Vision Deficiency Congenital complete absence Congenital complete absence Congenital Complete Heart Blocks congenital conjunctival membrane congenital conjunctival membrane Congenital Contractural Arachnodactyly congenital cyanosis congenital cyst Congenital Cystic Adenoid Malformation

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primary alveolar hypoventilation
sleep apnea syndrome

Her condition, known as congenital central hypoventilation syndrome - which affects just 40 children in the UK - has left her parents Mihaela and Alex devastated.

Home at last..baby who forgets to BREATHE; EXCLUSIVE DAILY Mirror ... by The Mirror (London, England)

Maryann needs round-the-clock care, even when she is sleeping, as the congenital central hypoventilation syndrome she suffers from means she could stop breathing at any moment.

YOU'RE GOING HOME, BABY; Exclusive Maryann's nine-month hell ends by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

CONGENITAL central hypoventilation syndrome is a rare neurological disorder.

DANGER BREATHING CONDITION THERE'S NO CURE FOR by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)

conformation

conformational disease

confounding

confrontation

confrontational visual field testing