While patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or multiple sclerosis (MS) are at high risk of developing postoperative complications, both of them have special anesthetic considerations in intraoperative and postoperative periods. A careful preoperative evaluation, use of the optimal anesthetic regimen and close postoperative care is essential for these patients. Rarity of coexistence of bot...

BACKGROUND Rhinitis and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) often coexist during childhood. To delineate this clinical association, we examined OSA severity and polysomnogram (PSG) features in children with rhinitis and OSA. Given that rapid-eye-movement (REM) sleep is characterized by nasal congestion, we hypothesized that children with rhinitis have more REM-related breathing abnormalities. METHO...

71 AT Outcomes of Pediatric OSA—Huang et al INTRODUCTION Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is a highly prevalent condition in children and characterized by snoring, witnessed apnea, unrefreshing sleep, and excessive daytime sleepiness.1,2 Children with OSA experience recurrent periods of elevated upper airway resistance during sleep due to partial or complete upper airway obstruction, whic...

Obstructive sleep apnea in patients, between 70 and 80 percent, can be cured with just a posture correcting. The most import thing to do this is detection of obstructive sleep apnea. Detection of obstructive sleep apnea can be performed through heart rate variability analysis using power spectrum density analysis. After HRV analysis we needed to know the current position information for correct...

1 AbstractA review of the recommendations in currently applicable version chapter “Sleep-related breathing disorders adults” guideline “Non-restorative sleep/sleep disorders” conducted by steering group identified a number and chapters requiring revision or updating light new scientific clinical evidence. These included selected on diagnosis (clinical examination, polysomnography, respiratory p...

Both obesity and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) are complex disorders with multiple risk factors, which interact in a complicated fashion to determine the overall phenotype. In addition to environmental risk factors, each disorder has a strong genetic basis that is likely due to the summation of small to moderate effects from a large number of genetic loci. Obesity is a strong risk factor for sl...

Background: Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) is a common sleep-related breathing disorder, characterized by recurrent collapse or blockage of the pharynx during sleep that causes intermittent cessation airflow and hallmark snoring gasping pattern. When OSA occurs in pregnancy, it independently associated with increased risk gestational hypertension, preeclampsia, diabetes possibly fetal growth res...

Introduction : The prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in pregnant women has been estimated to range from 12% to 26.7% (1,2,3). Previous studies have evaluated SDB and/or OSA during pregnancy, but no study has specifically examined the first postpartum day. The first-day postpartum is associated with significant changes to maternal physiology and sle...

Background: At present, little research concerning the assessment of left atrial (LA) dysfunction in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) using a combined by speckle tracking (STE) and real-time three-dimensional echocardiography (RT3DE) is available. The objective this study was to evaluate LA volume function STE RT3DE OSA.

SNORING AND OBSTRUCTIVE SLEEP APNEA (OSA) ARE CAUSED IN PART BY REPETITIVE DYNAMIC OBSTRUCTION OF THE OROPHARYNGEAL AIRWAY. There is growing epidemiological and experimental evidence that OSA, and to a lesser degree snoring, are associated with a wide variety of adverse health outcomes.1, 2 OSA is considered one of several potentially treatable contributors to systemic hypertension, and has bee...