Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children with Rare Skeletal Disorders: A Survey of Clinical Records.

Objective: Craniofacial disharmony in skeletal diseases is strongly associated with sleep-disordered breathing. This study was aimed at studying the sleep respiratory patterns in young children with rare skeletal disorders.

Design: This retrospective study included children with achondroplasia (ACH), osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) and Ellis van Creveld Syndrome.

Chiari 1 Malformation in a Child with Febrile Seizures, Parasomnias, and Sleep Apnea Syndrome.

Introduction: The type I is the most common Chiari malformation in children. In this condition, the lower part of the cerebellum, but not the brain stem, extends into the foramen magnum at the base of the skull leading to disturbances in cerebrospinal fluid circulation and to direct compression of nervous tissue.

Case Report: We describe a 4-year-old Caucasian female child with febrile seizures, headache, parasomnias, and a delay of speech.

Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Children with Recurrent Wheeze/Asthma: A Single Centre Study.

The relationship between asthma and sleep-disordered breathing is bidirectional due to common risk factors that promote airway inflammation. Obstructive sleep-disordered breathing and recurrent wheeze/asthma are conditions that involve the upper and the lower respiratory system, respectively. The aim of the present study was to investigate the sleep disordered breathing in children with recurrent wheeze/asthma.

Ambulatory clinical parameters and sleep respiratory events in a group of obese children unselected for respiratory problems.

Background: Obstructive sleep apnea in children is frequently due to tonsil and adenoid hypertrophy. This study aimed to investigate the relationship between ambulatory clinical parameters and sleep respiratory events in obese children.

Methods: We carried out a prospective respiratory sleep study between 2013 and 2015.

Indoor/outdoor not-voluptuary-habit pollution and sleep-disordered breathing in children: a systematic review.

Background: Exposure to environmental pollutants is advocated to be a major risk factor, with increased morbidity and mortality in humans due to acute and chronic airway inflammation. The aim of the present review is to show the literature research regarding the link between the sleep-disordered breathing and exposure to indoor/outdoor pollution in children. We hypothesized that environmental air pollution can play a role in childhood sleep-disordered breathing.

Evaluation of the central sleep apnea in asymptomatic children with Chiari 1 malformation: an open question.

Introduction: Type I is the most common Chiari malformation in children. In this condition, the lower part of the cerebellum, but not the brain stem, extends into the foramen magnum at the base of the skull leading to intermittent brain hypertension. In symptomatic children, central sleep apneas are shown in polysomnography evaluation.

Obstructive sleep-disordered breathing, enuresis and combined disorders in children: chance or related association?

Nocturnal enuresis is usually diagnosed and treated by a primary paediatrician or family practitioner; if there is any doubt, the children may be referred to a paediatric urologist. Obstructive sleep-disordered breathing is a complex, multifactorial disorder. Adenotonsillar hypertrophy is considered an important factor associated with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome.

Sleep disordered breathing in children with achondroplasia.

Background: Children with achondroplasia often have breathing problems, especially during sleep. The most important treatments are adenotonsillectomy (for treating upper obstruction) and/or neurosurgery (for resolving cervicomedullar junction stenosis).

Data Sources: We reviewed the scientific literature on polysomnographic investigations which assessed the severity of respiratory disorders during sleep.

Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with blood pressure and carotid arterial stiffness in obese children.

Introduction: Both sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and high blood pressure (BP) occur more frequently among obese children than among normal weight children, and this may be due to endothelial dysfunction and worsened arterial stiffness. The aim of this study was to evaluate the possible association between SDB and BP, and the possible role of endothelial function and local and systemic arterial stiffness in a sample of obese children asymptomatic for sleep disturbances.

Materials And Methods: Thirty-nine obese children were included in the study.

Sleep disordered breathing in a cohort of children with achondroplasia: correlation between clinical and instrumental findings.

Background: The aim of the present study was to show the results of an overnight polysomnography in a cohort of 9 children (7 females and 2 males) with achondroplasia, aged between 1 and 12 years (5.56±4.7 years).