Pulmonology · Pulmonology / Sleep and breathing disorders
Central alveolar hypoventilation syndrome
also: Ondine curse
Failure of automatic breathing control during sleep.
- Specialty
- Pulmonology
- Subspecialty
- Pulmonology / Sleep and breathing disorders
- Sex & age distribution
- Male: affected; Female: affected, equal; Children: yes, neonatal onset
- Gene(s) involved
- BDNF, EDN3, GDNF, PHOX2B, RET
- Alternative names & eponyms
- Ondine curse
Etiology & mechanism
Impaired chemoreceptor response in the brainstem.
Gene(s) involved (5)
Symptoms & signs (6)
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