Ninotchka L. Sigua, MD

Faculty

Ninotchka L. Sigua, MD

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Phone (317) 278-0175

Address

Willis Gatch Hall, CL 260
1120 W. Michigan St.
CL 260
Indianapolis, IN 46202

Titles & Appointments

Associate Professor of Clinical Medicine

Education

2010 FEL Fellowship in Sleep Medicine, Indiana University

2009 FEL Fellowship in Pulmonary & Critical Care Medicine, Indiana University

2006 RES Chief Residency in Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center

2005 RES Residency in Internal Medicine, Rush University Medical Center

2001 MD University of the Philippines

1996 BS University of the Philippines
Publications

Blowing past the apneic threshold.
Johal A; Lenet A; Sigua NL; Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 2022 Oct 1

A Feasibility Study: Testing Whether a Sleep Application Providing Objective Sleep Data to Physicians Improves Patient-Physician Communication Regarding Sleep Experiences, Habits, and Behaviors.
Durrani S; Cao S; Bo N; Pai JK; Baker J; Rawlings L; Qureshi ZP; Sigua NL; Manchanda S; Khan B; Advances in therapy 2022 Feb 8

What Is Central Sleep Apnea in Adults?
Liban Sigua N; Tamae Kakazu M; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2021 Apr 1

Upper Airway Stimulation/Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulator.
Manchanda S; Neupane P; Sigua NL; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2020 Oct 15

Sleepiness and Driving.
Stahl SM; Sigua NL; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2020 Jan 15

Psychiatric symptoms and their association with sleep disturbances in intensive care unit survivors.
Wang S; Meeker JW; Perkins AJ; Gao S; Khan SH; Sigua NL; Manchanda S; Boustani MA; Khan BA; International journal of general medicine 2019 Mar 22

What Is Sleep Deprivation?
Bandyopadhyay A; Sigua NL; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2019 Mar 15

An Aliasing Polysomnographic Finding.
Rajagopal A; Sigua NL; Bodkin C; Manchanda S; Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2019 Feb

Hospital outcomes in non-surgical patients identified at risk for OSA.
Khan SH; Manchanda S; Sigua NL; Green E; Mpofu PB; Hui S; Khan BA; Heart & lung : the journal of critical care 2019 Dec 23

Women and Sleep.
Rajagopal A; Sigua NL; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2018 Jun 1

Preoperative STOP-BANG Scores and Postoperative Delirium and Coma in Thoracic Surgery Patients.
Wang S; Sigua NL; Manchanda S; Gradney S; Khan SH; Perkins A; Kesler K; Khan B; The Annals of thoracic surgery 2018 Jul 3

What is Narcolepsy?
Gradney S; Sigua NL; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2017 Mar 1

Healthy Sleep In Adults.
Stahl SM; Sigua NL; American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine 2016 Mar 1

A young man with fever, pleuritic chest pain, and a lung mass.
Gupta S; Ionescu RC; Lahm T; Sigua NL; Annals of the American Thoracic Society 2014 Oct

A 44-year-old woman with excessive sleepiness. Opioid-induced central sleep apnea.
Tovar-Torres MP; Bodkin C; Sigua NL; Chest 2014 Dec

Effect of cigarette smoke exposure and structural modifications on the a-1 Antitrypsin interaction with caspases.
Lockett AD; Van Demark M; Gu Y; Schweitzer KS; Sigua N; Kamocki K; Fijalkowska I; Garrison J; Fisher AJ; Serban K; Wise RA; Flotte TR; Mueller C; Presson RG Jr; Petrache HI; Tuder RM; Petrache I; Molecular medicine (Cambridge, Mass.) 2012 May 9

Lung endothelial monocyte-activating protein 2 is a mediator of cigarette smoke-induced emphysema in mice.
Clauss M; Voswinckel R; Rajashekhar G; Sigua NL; Fehrenbach H; Rush NI; Schweitzer KS; Yildirim AÖ; Kamocki K; Fisher AJ; Gu Y; Safadi B; Nikam S; Hubbard WC; Tuder RM; Twigg HL 3rd; Presson RG; Sethi S; Petrache I; The Journal of clinical investigation 2011 May 16

A 42-year-old woman with diffuse pulmonary infiltrates and bilateral pneumothoraces.
Sigua NL; Cummings O; Lahm T; Chest 2011 Aug

An unusual bronchoscopic finding.
Sigua NL; Teague SD; Mathur PN; Respiration; international review of thoracic diseases 2009 Nov 24
Professional Organizations

American Academy of Sleep Medicine

American College of Chest Physicians

American Thoracic Society
Board Certifications

American Board of Internal Medicine - Sleep Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine - Critical Care Medicine

American Board of Internal Medicine - Pulmonary Disease

American Board of Internal Medicine - Internal Medicine
Clinical Interests

Management of Sleep Disorders: Obstructive and central sleep apnea, hypoventilation syndromes, narcolepsy, hypersomnia, insomnia and parasomnias. Clinical expertise in managing patients with hypoglossal nerve stimulator for obstructive sleep apnea and phrenic nerve stimulator for central sleep apnea.

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