Sleep Apnea Laboratory

The sleep laboratory was created on the basis of the Hypertension Department and has existed since 1999.

Currently, we conduct a full range of sleep-disordered breathing diagnostics in outpatient and hospital settings in a two specialized comfortable single wards.

The sleep laboratory is customized with the latest equipment that meets international standards:

• computer pulse oximeters (PulseOx 7500, SPO medical, Israel)
• respiratory monitors (Inkart, Russia, SOMNOcheck micro, SOMNOcheck cardio, Wienmann, Germany)
• polysomnographic systems Grass Technologies (USA) that provides real-time recording in conjunction with a video surveillance system
• CPAP, APAP and BiPAP devices.

PAP devices - Loweinstein (Germany), ResMed (Australia), ResSmart (China), Sefam (France), BMC (China).

Sleep Laboratory, together with various departments of the Institute of Clinical Cardiology, is engaged in clinical and scientific work. In-depth studies of patients with sleep-breathing disorders and various cardiological and endocrine pathologies: arterial hypertension, pulmonary hypertension, cardiac rhythm and conduction disturbances, ischemic heart disease, chronic heart failure, diabetes, obesity, erectile dysfunction, metabolic syndrome

Main scientific research interests

• Optimization of diagnostic approaches to verify the presence and severity of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) in cardiac patients in a hospital setting and during outpatient’s follow-up.
• Development of algorithms for the prescription and long-term follow-up of PAP- therapy.
• Development of diagnostic algorithms for identification and treatment of patients with refractory arterial hypertension and OSAS.
• Development of diagnostic algorithms for identification and treatment of patients with OSAS and arrhythmias.
• Development of diagnostic algorithms for PAP-therapy in patients after balloon angioplasty of pulmonary arteries.

Selected publications:

• Monography "Refractory arterial hypertension", «Сlinical somnology»,
• Guide for patients “Wake up healthy! New technologies for treating the heart in sleep ”, dedicated to the problems of diagnostics and treatment of breathing disorders during sleep.
• Methodological rationale for students and physicians: «Obstructive sleep apnea and arterial hypertension», «Sleep-breathing disorders: clinical presentation, aspects of diagnostics and therapy»
• «Adherence and efficacy of long-term PAP- therapy in patients with sleep-related breathing disorders associated with cardiac conduction disorders»
• «Gender characteristics of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome clinical manifestations and patients' quality of life»
• «The effectiveness of combination antihypertensive therapy in patients with arterial hypertension and additional risk factors: obesity and obstructive sleep apnea syndrome»
• «Еffects of metabolic syndrome on arterial function in different age groups: the advanced approach to arterial stiffness study»
• «Сontinuous positive airway pressure (СРАР) therapy in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and arterial hypertension: expert opinion»
• «Сlinico-psychological severity markers of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in patients with hypertension»
• «The effect of antihypertensive therapy and CPAP therapy on inflammatory and endothelial dysfunction markers levels in patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome in association with arterial hypertension»
• «Coagulation markers in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and effects of continuous positive airway pressure»
• «A clinical case of hemangioma of the face and tongue concurrent with severe obstructive sleep apnea syndrome complicated by cardiac arrhythmias and conduction disturbances»
• «Magnetic resonance tomography in sleep apnea syndrome diagnostics»
• «Role of the pulse oximetry in the cardiologist's practice»
• «Efficacy of СРАР therapy in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome associated with severe nocturnal bradyarrhythmias»
• «Erectile dysfunction and obesity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and arterial hypertension»

Research fellow – PhD Elfimova Eugeniya
Junior research fellow – PhD Mikhailova Oxana