Reply to the letter to the editor “Sleep disorders breathing in chronic heart failure. Is adaptive servoventilation really the answer?”

摘要

In the group with CompSAS, the diagnosis was made in patients who presented central sleep apnea after starting treatment with autoCPAP/CPAP for obstructive sleep apnea. These patients maintained a high AHI despite treatment (more than 2–3 months after the beginning of the treatment) so they were submitted to a split-night study about 4 months after the initial sleep study.