Central Hypoventilation Syndrome

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Clinic

  • CHS is a sleep-related breathing disorder that causes ineffective breathing, apnea, or respiratory arrest during sleep (and during wakefulness in severe cases).
  • CHS can either be congenital or acquired later in life.
  • The condition can be fatal if untreated.
  • CCHS was once known as Ondine's curse.
  • Acquired CHS can develop as a result of severe injury or trauma to the brain or brainstem.


Signs and symptoms

  • Darkening of skin color from inadequate amounts of oxygen,
  • Drowsiness, fatigue, headaches, and an inability to sleep at night.
  • Sensitivity to sedatives and narcotics, which makes respiration even more difficult. A low concentration of oxygen in the red blood cells also may cause hypoxia-induced pulmonary vasoconstriction and pulmonary hypertension, culminating in cor pulmonale or a failure of the right side of the heart.

Related Disease / Entities

  • CHS is associated with respiratory arrests during sleep and, in some cases, to neuroblastoma (tumors of the sympathetic ganglia)
  • Hirschsprung disease
  • Dysphagia
  • Anomalies of the pupilla
  • Gastro-esophageal reflux
  • Ophthalmologic issues
  • Seizures
  • Recurrent pneumonia
  • Developmental delays, learning disabilities
  • Episodes of fainting
  • Temperature dis regulation


Causes

  • Severe brain or spinal trauma or injury
  • Particular neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson's disease, MSA, or MS.
  • CHS used to be classified as a "neurocristopathy", or disease of the neural crest because part of the autonomic nervous system (such as sympathetic ganglia) derives from the neural crest.