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Cheyne stokes respiration
"Cheyne-Stokes respiration is an abnormal breathing pattern which commonly occurs in patients with decompensated congestive heart failure and neurologic diseases, in whom periods of tachypnea and hyperpnea alternate with periods of apnea." See: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2589377/
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