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Filter by:Congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS) is a rare disorder of autonomic and respiratory regulation that alters oxygen delivery to the brain. CCHS patients are at risk for broad neurocognitive deficits. Patients retain ventilatory activity when awake through a respiratory-related cortical network but the need to mobilise cortical resources to breathe lead to breathing-cognition interferences during cognitive tasks. The purpose of this study is to assess the relationship between breathing pattern and attention in CCHS children
The purpose of the study is to measure the negative cognitive consequences of the ventilation under pathological or experimental cortical drive to breath.
The congenital central hypoventilation syndrome (CCHS), also known as the Ondine syndrome, is a very rare genetic disorder. In contrast with healthy people, patients do not increase breathing in response to an excess of carbon dioxide (CO2). As a consequence, they do not breath sufficiently, or even stop breathing, during sleep. Their survival depends only on mechanical respiratory assistance, all life long. We have recently published two cases of recovery of a response to CO2 in patients taking desogestrel as a contraceptive pill. The goal of the study is therefore to assess the hypothesis that desogestrel will restore a respiratory response to CO2 in CCHS patients and allow them to breath sufficiently during sleep without mechanical assistance.