TY - T1的自然睡眠障碍性的进程breathing after acute myocardial infarction JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 1238 LP - 1239 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00195112 VL - 41 IS - 5 AU - Mermigkis, Charalampos AU - Bouloukaki, Izolde AU - Schiza, Sophia E. Y1 - 2013/05/01 UR - //www.qdcxjkg.com/content/41/5/1238.abstract N2 - To the Editor:In a recent issue of the European Respiratory Journal, Buchner et al. [1] reported an alleviation of sleep apnoea in 40 patients with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) 12 weeks after the event, associated with an improvement of ≥5% in the ejection fraction (EF). Moderate to severe sleep apnoea was observed in 55% of the patients. At the second evaluation the respiratory events were reduced significantly more in the improved EF group. The authors' novel observation was that the decrease in the apnoea–hypopnoea index (AHI) was the result of a reduction in obstructive, but not central respiratory events.Our own study of the time course of sleep apnoea after a first AMI was published several months earlier in the Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine [2], although it was not cited by Buchner et al. [1]. The study included 52 patients with first-ever acute coronary syndrome (ACS) who underwent polysomnography (PSG) on the third day after the acute cardiac event and were re-evaluated with PSG 1 … ER -