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Query: UMLS:C0917801 (
insomnia
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We present the case of a 48-year-old woman suffering from fatal familial
insomnia
(FFI)--a rare prion disease--who developed
Biot's breathing
and secondary respiratory failure during the early stages of the illness. Once hypercapnia was detected a trial of nocturnal noninvasive ventilation (NIV) was offered with important improvement of arterial blood gases (ABG), and subjective good quality of sleep. To our knowledge, this is the first report in the medical literature of the use of NIV in the management approach of this devastating disease. Its impact on the prognosis and survival of these patients, however, is yet to be elucidated.
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PMID:Biot's breathing in a woman with fatal familial insomnia: is there a role for noninvasive ventilation? 2134 52
