Long term ventilation into pediatric central apneas: etiologies,
profiles and therapeutic approaches over a decade
Santiago Presti MD 0000-0002-4879-5418 1,2*#, Martino
Pavone MD 0000-0003-4402-0700 1*, Elisabetta Verrillo
MD 0000-0001-6469-74231, Maria Giovanna Paglietti MD
0000-0003-2882-23751, Anna Del Colle MD
0000-0002-1237-3141 1, Salvatore Leonardi MD, PhD
0000-0002-2642-6400 2 and Renato Cutrera MD, PhD
0000-0001-7711-5672 1
1Pneumology and Cystic Fibrosis Unit, Academic
Department of Pediatrics, “Bambino Gesù” Children’s Hospital, piazza
di Sant’Onofrio 4, Rome, 00165, Italy.
2Pediatric Respiratory and Cystic Fibrosis Unit,
Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “San Marco”
Hospital, University of Catania, Viale Carlo Azeglio Ciampi, 95121
Catania, Italy.
*these authors contributed equally
#Correspondence: Santiago Presti, Pediatric Respiratory and Cystic
Fibrosis Unit, Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine, “San
Marco” Hospital, University of Catania, Viale Carlo Azeglio Ciampi,
95121 Catania, Italy,santiagopresti@gmail.com,
Tel.: 0039 - 0954794181
Author Contributions: Conceptualization, R.C., M.P. and S.L.;
methodology, S.P.; software, A.D.C.; validation, M.G.P., E.V.; formal
analysis, S.P. and M.P.; investigation, E.V. and M.G.P.; resources,
M.P.; data curation, S.P., M.P.; writing—original draft preparation,
S.P.; writing—review and editing, M.P., S.L. and R.C… All
authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.