Schamberg's disease in a case of severe obstructive sleep apnea: A case report

JOURNAL TITLE: Indian Journal of Sleep Medicine

Author
ISSN
0973-340X
DOI
10.5005/IJSM-9-4-183
Volume
9
Issue
4
Publishing Year
2014
Pages
3
Article keywords
Schamberg\'s disease, Obstructive sleep apnea, Bilevel positive airway pressure therapy.

Abstract

The present case refers to a patient who had complaints of loud snoring, excessive daytime sleepiness with skin lesions in legs and feet and uncomfortable itchy sensation in eyes. The skin lesions were compatible with a diagnosis of Schamberg's disease and the ophthalmic complaints were possibly a variant of floppy eyelid syndrome. Application of overnight bilevel positive airway pressure therapy resulted in dramatic improvement in the ophthalmic complaints. Further on after regular use of bilevel positive airway pressure therapy no new capillary hemorrhages were observed.

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