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Five adults with enuresis associated with sleep apnea presented to our Sleep Disorders Center. In all five cases, the onset of enuresis was associated with the progression of sleep apnea symptoms. In each case, the enuresis resolved with treatment with nasal con¬ tinuous positive airway pressure. Current medical literature on the postulated mechanisms of nocturia and enuresis in sleep apnea is reviewed. Based on the experience of the authors and review of the medical literature, one may conclude that severe OSA may lead to new-onset enuresis in adults and that effective treatment of OSA is associated with resolution of enuresis. (CHEST 1998; 114:634-637) Key words: adults; enuresis; obstructive sleep apnea Abbreviations: ANP=atrial naturetic peptide; CPAP=continuous positive airway pressure; OSA= obstructive sleep apnea *From the Division of Pulmonary, Sleep, and Critical Care Medicine, Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University School of Medicine, Providence, RL Manuscript received July 17, 1997; revision accepted December to: Naomi R. Kramer, MD, Sleep Disorders Correspondence Center, Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, Rl 02903 26, 1997. Selected Reports A dult enuresis is an unusual symptom of obstructive -^*- sleep apnea (OSA). Although it is described as a classic symptom of childhood OSA,15 enuresis is encountered of adult sleep medi¬ infrequently in the clinical practice cine. Five adults with enuresis associated with sleep apnea to the Sleep Disorders Center during 1 year. presented The purpose of this study is to review the key clinical features and polysomnogram data of these patients in order to better define who is likely to develop this troubling symptom. Case Series Clinical Data All five patients were referred for evaluation of snoring with witnessed apneas and excessive sleepiness. All five patients were male. The mean age at time of presentation was 38 ±9 years. All the patients were obese, with mean (± SEM) body mass index of 38.6±2.1 kg/m2 and neck size of 17.5±0.3 cm. Comorbid illnesses included hypertension (2 patients), moderate COPD (FEVjl of 1.69 in 1 patient), moderate alcohol use (3 to 6 alcoholic and diabetes mellitus (1 beveragesNoper night inwere2 patients),diuretics. Caffeine use was taking patient). patients quite extensive in most patients and ranged from 16 oz of soda to 32 oz of coffee plus 12 oz of soda per day. However, no patient used caffeine in the evening after dinner. Although all of these patients snored for many years, there had been a significant increase in snoring, witnessed apnea, and sleepiness associated with weight gain in the months prior to presentation. In all five patients, enuresis developed during this time period of progressive sleep apnea symptoms. Only one of these patients had a prior history of enuresis. The enuresis had previously resolved at age 19 and then recurred at age 29 when he developed symptoms of sleep apnea. In one other patient, enuresis occurred transiently 1 year prior to presentation and then recurred in the 2 to 3 months prior to presentation. He to five multiple episodes per night requiring threesheets. experienced In changes of underwear per night and the use of plastic contrast, 2 other patients each experienced only 4 episodes of enuresis occurring over 4 to 5 months of increasing snoring and sleep apnea symptoms prior to presentation. In the fifth patient, the enuresis occurred intermittently. He would experience en¬ uresis on a nightly basis for three to four nights and then it would abate for several nights. This patient also started sleep walking (not in association with enuresis per se), which he had not done in childhood. The patient with the most severe enuresis (multiple episodes per night) did not have a higher apnea/hypopnea index, lower oxygen saturation, or longer duration of respiratory events. He did, however, have the highest body mass index. Table 1.Clinical Features Age kg/m2 AHI, Baseline 46 29 35 42 33 37.0±3.1 46.7 35.2 36.9 38.5 35.7 38.6±2.1 80 109 117 105 126 107.4±7.7 BMI, Testing In the laboratory, split-night polysomnograms were recorded for all five patients. Monitoring was accomplished using two EEG leads, two electro-oculogram leads, a submental electromyogram, a snoring microphone, an airflow thermistor, chest and abdomi¬ nal Piezo electrode bands, pulse oximetry, an ECG, and bilateral anterior tibialis electromyogram. All 5 patients had severe sleep apnea during a baseline period of a minimum 2 h of sleep. The events per apnea/hypopnea index was 107.4±7.7 (mean±SEM) hour of sleep with a nadir 02 saturation of 75.2±2.7%. The apnea duration ranged from 10 to 45 s. The mean duration of the longest event of each record was 35 s. Mean sleep efficiencyofwas 84%, with a range of 60 to 98% during the baseline portion the record. In three of the five studies, rapid eye movement sleep was not seen during the baseline portion of the record; thus, the degree of sleep apnea may have been underestimated in these patients. Nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) was titrated during the second half of the study. The optimal pressure ranged from 12.5 to 20 cm H20. The apnea/hypopnea index at the optimal CPAP pressure was 10.6±2.7 with a nadir 02 saturation of 91.2±1.2% (Table 1). Results of Treatment The patients were seen 1 to 2 weeks after the sleep study and nasal CPAP was started at home. They were again seen for reported follow-up examination in 1 to 4 months. All the patients complete resolution of snoring, daytime sleepiness, and enuresis with use of CPAP. DISCUSSION To date, there are a maximum of 17 cases of enuresis associated with sleep apnea reported in adults.511 The general early reports of enuresis are included in severalfrom the reviews and case series about sleep apnea same institution. Therefore, it is possible that some patients may have been included in more than one report. It is not clear, however, who experiences enure¬ sis and why. This study presents five men with OSA and enuresis who presented to the sleep center over a the closest calendar year, period of 12 months. During 1,561 polysomnograms were recorded. Of these, 775 studies were initial studies establishing a diagnosis of OSA in an adult patient. Although a positive history of enuresis unrelated to other medical disorders was doc¬ umented in only five patients, the absence of this symptom was not always documented in other patients. Therefore, the true incidence of this symptom cannot of Enuresis and Obstructive Sleep Apnea Nadir 02 %, Baseline AHI With CPAP* Nadir 02 %, With CPAP* 82 74 74 66 70 10 10 2 19 12 92 89 93 88 94 73.2±2.7 10.6±2.7 91.2±1.2 *p<0.005 compared to baseline. Data is expressed as Mean±SEM. BMI=body mass index; AHI=apnea/hypopnea index CHEST/114/2/AUGUST, 1998 Downloaded From: http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/ on 12/03/2014 635 be established. However, it is clearly an infrequently offered complaint The patients were all obese with very severe disease. The enuresis developed in conjunction with weight gain and worsening symptoms of OSA. The onset of enuresis with the onset of sleep apnea symp¬ toms and the resolution of enuresis with CPAP treat¬ ment of OSA suggests that the sleep apnea may be the cause of the enuresis in these patients. The mechanism of enuresis in patients with sleep apnea is probably multifactorial. Patients with massive obesity have an increased glomerular filtration rate.12 Krieger et al13 demonstrated higher fractional urinary flows, higher fractional sodium and chloride excretion, and a lower percentage of filtered sodium reabsorption in patients with sleep apnea compared with those values in normal subjects. Treatment with nasal CPAP tended to normalize the renal function in the patients with OSA. Furthermore, the use of CPAP was associated with reduced urinaiy output and increased Na+ resorption. Although this study is limited because patients and normal subjects were not age- and weight-matched, other research has shown sim¬ ilar results.1416 articles by these and other authors sug¬ Subsequent a role for atrial naturetic peptide (ANP) in these gest in renal function.1520 Negative intrathoracic changes pressure swings associated with respiratory effort against a closed airway are associated with increased venous return. In addition, the hypoxia associated with an apneic event may induce pulmonary vasoconstriction, which can cause right ventricular overload and right atrial distention. The subsequent atrial dilatation may lead to ANP release, and this increase in ANP levels enhances urinary excretion. In support of this, the work by Krieger and his colleagues17 suggested that the ANP levels correlated with the degree of hypoxemia as well as the degree of negative intrathoracic pressure associated with apneas. Although several articles have demonstrated in¬ creased ANP levels in patients with sleep apnea and a decrease in ANP levels with treatment with nasal CPAP,1618 not all studies have been consistent in their findings. In a study by Warley et al,21 ANP levels were not elevated in normal subjects when OSA was simu¬ lated in normal subjects with an inspiratory threshold load. The degree of negative inspiratory pressure swings and the degree of hypoxemia were not as severe as those seen in actual patients with OSA in the other studies. Bodenstein et al22 found changes in diuresis and natriuresis in patients with sleep apnea before and after treatment, similar to those documented by other au¬ thors. However, they were not able to demonstrate a change in ANP levels with CPAP. Some of their patients did have left ventricular dysfunction, which can raise ANP levels. This rise in ANP would not be expected necessarily to improve with CPAP. In addition, the blood samples these authors collected were peripheral venous samples drawn in the morning, after the patients were awake. Although Krieger et al18 found a trend towards lower ANP levels in OSA patients receiving CPAP treatment, the difference in ANP level before and after CPAP therapy only reached statistical signif¬ 636 Downloaded From: http://journal.publications.chestnet.org/ on 12/03/2014 pulmonary artery samples rather than peripheral samples were analyzed. ANP levels are higher in the pulmonary artery than in peripheral venous blood even in normal subjects. In addition, ANP has a very short half-life (2 to 3 min). Therefore, some discrepancy in results between studies may reflect time and site of ANP sampling. Typically, patients with sleep apnea complain of frequent awakenings to urinate.23'24 The fact that a small subset of patients do not fully awaken to urinate, but rather have enuresis, suggests that there may be something abnormal with their arousal response. Per¬ haps the inordinately high number of arousals that these patients experienced may have blunted their ability to fully wake up. Data from Berry et al25 suggest that OSA itself (perhaps due to sleep fragmentation) decreases the arousal response to airway occlusion. The apnea duration in patients in this study was not as long as that seen by Berry et al.25 (Berry et al found apnea duration increased as arousal threshold increased.) However, this study did not measure esophageal pressure swings or responses to other stimuli, so data on arousal threshold per se cannot be provided. To determine if an altered arousal threshold is really the key factor in causing enuresis rather than nocturia, a prospective study ex¬ amining the duration of apnea, changes in esophageal and arousal to other icance when venous stimuli, among pressure, response other variables, is necessary. It has been shown, how¬ ever, that sleep fragmentation alone (not associated with respiratory disturbance) impairs the arousal re¬ sponse to acoustic and respiratory stimuli in humans and animals.26'27 The patients presented in this study all had very severe OSA with frequent arousals. In summary, severe OSA may lead to new-onset enure¬ sis in adults. The enuresis resolves with successful treat¬ ment of the sleep apnea. Further research in human subjects is necessary to fully elucidate the pathophysio¬ logic features of this disorder. 1 References Guilleminault C, Eldridge FL, Simmons FB, et al. Sleep apnea in eight children. Pediatrics 1976; 58:23-30 2 Weider DJ, Sateia MJ, West RP. 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Urol Int 1993; 50:93-97 Berry RB, Kouchi KG, Der DE, et al. Sleep apnea impairs the arousal response to airway occlusion. Chest 1996; 27 Edward P. Gerstenfeld, MD; Yogarajah Balarajan, MD; Robert Cooke, PAC; and Robert S. Mittleman, MD 36-year-old man with a history of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy presented to the emer¬ gency room with "stabbing" chest pain. He had undergone dual-chamber pacemaker implantation in 1993 using an atrial lead (Accufix; Telectronics; Englewood, Colo) and a myomeetomy in 1996 during which the distal portion of the atrial lead was re¬ moved. Digital fluoroscopy revealed that the reten¬ tion wire had migrated out of the remaining atrial lead and perforated the right atrium. The retention wire was successfully removed percutaneously. The need for complete removal of the retention wire in the Accufix lead at the time of open-heart surgery is A emphasized. (CHEST 1998; 114:637-639) Key words: atrial lead; hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopa¬ thy; lead extraction; pacemaker patient who had implantation of a dual chamber ****pacemaker experienced "stabbing" pain that resulted from migration of the retention wire out of the atrial lead and perforation of the right atrium. This report recounts the clinical data pertinent to the patient. A Case Report A 36-year-old man with a history of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy presented to the emergency department com¬ plaining of severe, pleuritic chest pain radiating to his back. A diagnosis of hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy had been made when the patient was a child. Because of symptoms of exertional dyspnea and chest pain refractory to medical therapy, he underwent implantation of a dual-chamber pace¬ maker in 1993 with the use of an atrial lead (Accufix; Telectronics; Englewood, CO). The atrial lead is now known to be susceptible to fracture of the retention wire, leading to cardiac perforation or embolization (J. W. Dennis; Telectron¬ ics; written communication; November 3, 1994). His symp¬ toms persisted, and he was referred to an outside institution in 1996. time of At the where he underwent a myomeetomy at of atrial lead was cut the the surgery, junction the superior vena cava and right atrium as recommended, with the inten¬ tion of removing the retention wire. The rest of the lead was 109: 1490-96 26 Migration and Right Atrial Perforation of an Accufix Atrial Lead Retention Wire Following Partial Lead Removal During Myomeetomy* Downey B, Bonnet MH. Performance during frequent sleep disruption. Sleep 1987; 10:354-63 Phillipson EA, Bowes G, Sullivan CE, et al. The influence of sleep fragmentation on arousal and ventilatory responses to respiratory stimuli. 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