A classic disease condition in which patient suffers from respiratory arrest in sleep. Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a very rare worldwide disorder and it could be fatal if untreated. This article gives a short overview of the diagnosis of this rare respiratory disorder. Ondine’s curse or Primary alveolar hypoventilation are two other names of CCHS.
It is a very rare disease which is characterized by the adequate ventilation while the patient is awake and by hypoventilation with normal respiratory rates and shallow breathing during sleep. A person suffering from CCHS mostly get it at birth or develop it due to neurological trauma to the brainstem. Most of the time, diagnosis of CCHS gets delayed because of variations in the severity of the indications. The severe form of the disease is an inborn failure of autonomic control of breathing due to dysregulation of…
