Annual Congress Vienna 2009

Saturday, 12.09.2009
Sunday, 13.09.2009
Monday, 14.09.2009
Tuesday, 15.09.2009
Wednesday, 16.09.2009

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, abstract number.


Material from 2009:
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  • 652 Slide presentations
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Cardiovascular complications in obstructive sleep apnoea

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: S. Javaheri (Cincinnati, Oh, United States of America), W. Randerath (Solingen, Germany)
The estimation of additional decrease of the BP under CPAP-therapy in pts with severe AH and OSA touched on goal values of BP in the course of medicament therapy
Z. Sukmarova, A. Litvin, A. Rogoza, I. Chazova (Moscow, Russian Federation)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Autonomic activation during sleep influences 24h systolic blood pressure level – a population-based study
F. Chouchou, J. L. Pepin, H. G. Ntougou Assoumou, R. Tamisier, V. Pichot, S. Celle, P. Levy, J. C. Barthelemy, F. Roche (Saint Etienne, Grenoble, France)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Carotid intima-media thickness (IMT) in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients without comorbidities and in healthy volunteers
A. Gorzewska, J. Drozdowski, A. Jerzemowska, K. Kuziemski, J. M. Slominski (Gdansk, Poland)
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Early signs of cardiovascular system dysfunction in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients before clinical manifestation
A. Gorzewska, J. Drozdowski, A. Jerzemowska, B. Cynowska, M. Porzezinska, K. Kedziora, M. Stachera-Grzenkowicz, J. M. Slominski (Gdansk, Poland)
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Congress or journal article abstract
In OSA patients nocturnal hypoxemia is associated with reduced ability to maintain daytime wakefulness
F. Fanfulla, R. Maestroni, N. D‘Artavilla Luppo, R. Trentin, C. Fracchia, S. Nava (Pavia, Montescano, Italy)
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Congress or journal article abstract
A prospective study of sleep disordered breathing in Indian patients with heart failure in Mumbai, India
D. Agrawal, V. Jadhwar, Z. Udwadia (Mumbai, India)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Occurance of sleep disordered breathing in patients with atrial fibrillation
C. Schoebel, M. Sebert, I. Fietze, D. Bangha-Szabo, J. Schaarschmidt, T. Vogtmann, T. Penzel (Berlin (Mitte), Germany)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Predictors of residual sleepiness in adequately treated obstructive sleep apnoea patients
E. Perraki, E. Vagiakis, I. Koutsourelakis, S. Zakynthinos, C. Roussos (Athens, Greece)
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Neuropeptide plasma levels in sleep apnea patients with and without excessive daytime sleepiness
M. Sánchez de la Torre, A. Barceló, M. De la Peña, S. Gómez, F. Capote, J. F. Masa, J. Durán, J. M. Marín, L. De Lecea, F. Barbé (Lleida, Madrid, Spain)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Degree of sleepiness and cardiac alterations in non-hypertensive obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) patients
H. Vrints, B. Shivalkar, K. Kluppels, E. Hamans, P. Van de Heyning, W. De Backer, C. Vrints, J. Verbraecken (Antwerp, Belgium)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Relationship between obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) and atrial fibrillation
R. Plywaczewski, B. Kazanecka, M. Czystowska, L. Jonczak, D. Gorecka, P. Sliwinski (Warsaw, Poland)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Left ventricular diastolic dysfunction is associated with severity of oxygen desaturation in obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
J. P. Baguet, G. Barone-Rochette, P. Levy, E. Vautrin, H. Pierre, J. L. Pepin (Grenoble, France)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Complex estimation of various types and severity of nocturnal cardiac arrhythmias caused by sleep apnoea
E. Szabóová, Z. Tomori, V. Donic, S. Grešová, P. Szabó (Košice, Slovakia)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome as an arterial hypertension risk factor – clinical study
F. M. Nitu, D. Medregoniu, M. Olteanu, A. Voicu Maceseanu, M. Olteanu (Craiova, Romania)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Left ventricular hipertrophy (LVH) and diastolic dysfunction (DD) in obstructive sleep apnea (SAHS) patients
M. A. Fernandez Jorge, J. L. Delgado, T. Ruiz, G. Sobrino, J. A. Iglasias (Palencia, Spain)
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Congress or journal article abstractE-poster
Arterial hypertension in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in cluj napoca, Romania
D. A. Todea, L. E. Rosca, A. C. Herescu, N. Neagoe (Cluj Napoca, Romania)
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Adiponectin is not a cardiovascular risk factor in otherwise healthy subjects with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS)
R. Rubinsztajn, M. Kumor, P. Nejman-Gryz, P. Bielicki, R. Chazan (Warsaw, Poland)
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Congress or journal article abstract
A case controlled study of the medium-term effects of nasal CPAP on carotid artery intima-media thickness in obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome
D. Hui, K. W. To, Q. Shang, S. Ng, F. Ko, A. Tung, G. Yip, C. M. Yu (Shatin, Hong Kong)
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Congress or journal article abstract
Adherence to CPAP treatment in patients with coronary artery disease and obstructive sleep apnoea without sleepiness: a preliminary report from the riccadsa trial
Y. Turgut Celen, H. Glantz, O. Sengören, E. Thunström, T. Tin, J. Ejdebäck, Y. Peker (Skoevde, Gothenburg, Sweden)
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