PMID- 27387522 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20180809 LR - 20240130 IS - 1532-6551 (Electronic) IS - 1071-3581 (Linking) VI - 24 IP - 6 DP - 2017 Dec TI - Adaptive servo-ventilation therapy improves cardiac sympathetic nerve activity, cardiac function, exercise capacity, and symptom in patients with chronic heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration. PG - 1926-1937 LID - 10.1007/s12350-016-0529-9 [doi] AB - PURPOSE: Adaptive servo-ventilation (ASV) therapy has been reported to be effective for improving central sleep apnea (CSA) and chronic heart failure (CHF). The purpose of this study was to clarify whether ASV is effective for CSA, cardiac sympathetic nerve activity (CSNA), cardiac symptoms/function, and exercise capacity in CHF patients with CSA and Cheyne-Stokes respiration (CSR-CSA). METHODS: In this study, 31 CHF patients with CSR-CSA and a left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF)