Effect of Theophylline on Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Heart Failure
Open Access
- 22 August 1996
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 335 (8) , 562-567
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejm199608223350805
Abstract
Theophylline has been used to treat central apnea associated with Cheyne–Stokes respiration (periodic breathing). We studied the effect of short-term oral theophylline therapy on periodic breathing associated with stable heart failure due to systolic dysfunction.Keywords
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