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Sleep apnea  is a sleep disorder causing pauses in respiration during sleep, and each episode results in missing of one or more breaths, and such apneas occur recurrently throughout sleep period. The respiratory control mechanism is less effective during sleep and brief periods of apnea occur in normal sleeping adults. During sleep there is decreased sensitivity to low PCO2 (Partial pressure of Carbon dioxide).

Endocarditis is a cardiac condition caused by an infection of the inner lining of the heart. It is generally caused by a bacterium and can affect the heart valves as well as the heart lining. As it is a potentially life threatening problem, treatment of endocarditis requires long term intravenous antibiotics and maybe even open heart surgery. Hence, it is better to do a preventive treatment called a prophylaxis.

Vitamin K antagonists (VKA) are a class of anticoagulants which , as their name indicates act by inhibiting the action of vitamin K, coumarins are the most commonly used VKA. In medicine the most commonly used VKA is warfarin.. Warfarin is an antagonist of Vitamin K, a necessary element in the synthesis of clotting factors II, VII, IX, and X as well as the naturally occuring endogenous anticoagulatant protein C and S which are biologically inactive without the carboxylation of certain glutamic acid residues.

Germany is believed to be one of the best place for all types of medical treatment, that too if it is heart treatment, it is one among the best. With lots of positive track records, German hospitals have organized many heart surgeries and heart treatments successfully.