| sleep apnea |
A breathing disorder in which a person stops breathing and starts breathing again many times during the night, causing them to sleep poorly and putting them at risk for eventually developing heart problems. People with MPS VI often suffer sleep apnea because of narrow airways that make it hard to breathe.
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| sleep apnea |
Cessation of breathing that occurs during sleep. Usually due to obstruction of the airway, it can also be due to inability of the brain to initiate respiration.
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| sleepwalking |
Any complex physical action, such as walking, that occurs with the sleeper only partially awake and in a trance-like state.
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| SLE-like s. |
see systemic lupus erythematosus, under lupus.
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| sleep a. |
transient periods of cessation of breathing during sleep. It may result in hypoxemia and vasoconstriction of pulmonary arterioles, producing pulmonary arterial hypertension. The two primary types are central sleep a. and obstructive sleep a.
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