[Clinical late manifestation of Ondine's syndrome with pronounced primary, especially sleep related alveolar hypoventilation]

Abstract

We report on a very rare case of a primary, alveolar hypoventilation syndrome (Ondine's Curse syndrome) in a female patient who was first treated at the age of 26 years as a result of an influenza infection; however, the case history revealed a decreased performance in comparison to similar aged children from earliest childhood onwards as well as an intermittent zyanosis of the lips and distal extremities. Other diseases which could explain a global respiratory insufficiency and/or pulmonary arterial hypertension were excluded.