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Overview
Causes
Causes in Alphabetical Order
- Abrupt awakenings accompanied by shortness of breath
- Automatic positive airway pressure
- Brain stem dysfunction
- Bronchial rupture
- Central nervous system depressants
- Chronic airway-digestive inflammatory disease (CAID)
- CNS depression due to drug effect
- CNS depression due to postictal state
- CNS depression due to sepsis
- CNS due to respiratory syncytial virus
- Cyanotic congenital heart disease (see cyanosis)
- Diffuse pneumonia
- Loud snoring
- Maternal beta-blocker use (transfer across placenta)
- Maternal narcotic use (transfer across placenta)
- Medullary hemorrhage
- Medullary infarction
- Obstruction by tongue
- Obstruction by tumor
- Overweight and obesity
- Pontine hemorrhage
- Prenatal asphyxia
- Surfactant deficiency
- Use of sedatives (sleeping pills, etc.)