On the origin of Cheyenne-Stokes' breathing

Of the large periodic fluctuations of breathing in clinical pathology there are two forms - Cheyne-Stokes' and wavy breathing (wogende Atmung). Both forms of breathing represent a failure in the essence of the phenomenon of the same order: wavy breathing can easily, under certain conditions, go to Cheyne-Stokes. The first form is mainly observed in severe diseases - severe disorders of cardiac activity, arteriosclerotic lesions of cerebral vessels, meningitis, cerebral hemorrhages, uremia, etc. The second form occurs much more often than it was supposed before. Its detection became possible with the introduction of systematic pneumographic studies into the clinical routine.