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tricyclic antidepressant used to treat clinical depression 
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Sleep apnea is a common disorder in which breathing stops during sleep for 10 seconds or more, sometimes more than 300 times a night. The hallmark of the disorder is excessive daytime sleepiness and compromised quality of life, including significant social and emotional problems. There are two main types of sleep apnea. ''Obstructive sleep apnea'' may represent cessation of breathing due to mechanical blockage of the airway; ''central sleep apnea'' appears to be related to a malfunction of the b...
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Protriptyline as related to Sleep Apnea
- NEJM -- Protriptyline in obstructive sleep apnea: a double-blind trial
Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine -- Protriptyline in obstructive sleep apnea: a double-blind trial
- Sleep apnea: Treatment with protriptyline -- Clark et al. 29 (91 ...
NEUROLOGY 1979;29:1287 © 1979 American Academy of Neurology Sleep apnea Treatment with protriptyline Robert W. Clark, M.D. , Helmut S. Schmidt, M.D. , Stephen F.
- Obstructive sleep apnea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
... 416.pdf?ck=nck ^ L-tryptophan in the treatment of impaired respirat...[Bull Eur Physiopathol Respir. 1983 Nov-Dec] - PubMed Result ^ NEJM - Protriptyline in obstructive sleep apnea: a ...
- Central Sleep Apnea Informational Page: F.A.Qs
How is Central Sleep Apnea treated? Medications: Protriptyline; also known as Triptil, Vivactil. An anti-depressant. Also .5mg - 1mg of Klonopin , a depressant.
- Sleep Apnea
Protriptyline is one medication used to treat mild cases of apnea. It is an antidepressant that decreases REM (dreaming) sleep, a time when apneas are likely to be ...
- AccessPharmacy.com
... fluoxetine; imipramine; medroxyprogesterone acetate; obstructive sleep apnea; oxygen therapy; paroxetine; pharmacotherapy of neurologic disorders; protriptyline; sleep apnea ...
- Sleep Apnea | Vhi Healthcare
Supplemental nighttime oxygen can be useful for some people with either central and obstructive sleep apnea. Tricyclic antidepressant drugs such as protriptyline (Vivactil) may ...
- Sleep apnea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Sleep apnea , sleep apnoea or sleep apnœa is a sleep disorder characterized by pauses in ... that have been explored as a treatment for apnea include prozac , tryptophan and protriptyline ...
- A Psychiatrist's Primer on Sleep Apnea - Psychiatric Times
Although mechanisms of protriptyline effects on sleep apnea are not known, Bonora and others focused on its capacity to raise skeletal muscle tone in sleep and, perhaps ...
- Sleep apnea -- 17 (10): 736 -- The Annals of Pharmacotherapy
Several recent studies have reported benefits of protriptyline in obstructive sleep apnea. The drug does not completely resolve the apnea, but does improve nocturnal oxygenation ...
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