Obstructive sleep apnea is a common sleep-related breathing disorder of major public health importance. However, the treatment remains challenging. The current gold standard, particularly for moderate to severe cases, is continuous positive airway pressure, but it is often suboptimal because patients dislike it so do not tolerate it [1]. Thus, many surgical techniques have been reported initial...

Introduction : Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a terminal disease that causes various kinds of clinical manifestations are very disturbing to the sufferer, such as dyspnea, and dyspnea in CHF patients can cause sleep disorder known Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB). The aim this study was determine effect providing prayer guidance on quality with dyspnea. Methods Pre-post test research approac...

Objective: Sleep apnea is a breathing disorder requiring treatment by CPAP. The impact of sleep apnea and how the condition and its treatment are perceived by partners have been studied in small populations. However, few large scale studies have focused on the role and expectations of partners of patients treated with CPAP. Methods: descriptive study of responses to questionnaires sent to 2,059...

Heart failure is an increasingly common public health problem that is strongly linked to both central and obstructive sleep apnea, collectively referred to as sleep-disordered breathing. Much attention has been given to the deleterious effects of sleep-disordered breathing on the failing heart and potential mechanisms by which treatment of sleep-disordered breathing may result in improved cardi...

590 Sleep apnoea syndrome (SAS), generally characterized by sleep disturbances such as snoring, obstructed breathing during sleep, excessive day-time tiredness and fatigue, is a serious problem. It is potentially a life threatening condition, that is far more common than generally understood. It is associated with a number of diseases1, including hypertension, cerebrovascular diseases and metab...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the available literature regarding Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS) treatment. METHODS Keywords "Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome," "Sleep-related Breathing Disorder treatment," "Obstructive Sleep Apnea treatment" and "flow limitation and sleep" were used in main databases. RESULTS We found 27 articles describing UARS treatment. Nasal continuous positive airway ...

BACKGROUND Children with obstructive sleep apnea are at high risk for perioperative airway obstruction. Many "at risk" children may remain unrecognized. The aim of this study is to find a clinically practicable test to identify obstructive sleep apnea in childhood. METHODS In this pilot study, we prospectively compared four parental questionnaires with the respective findings of subsequent sl...

Copyright: © 2013 Ming X. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. The connection between headaches and sleep disorders has recently come under greater scrutiny as more and more studies are being conduc...

Sleep disorders negatively impact behavior, cognition, and growth--the same areas targeted by early intervention. Conversely, developmental delays and disabilities may themselves precipitate sleep disorders. Young children with developmental delays experience sleep disorders at a higher rate than do typically developing children; the most common types are difficulties initiating or maintaining ...

BACKGROUND Sleep-disordered breathing is associated with major morbidity and mortality. However, its prevalence has mainly been selectively studied in populations at risk for sleep-disordered breathing or cardiovascular diseases. Taking into account improvements in recording techniques and new criteria used to define respiratory events, we aimed to assess the prevalence of sleep-disordered brea...