In patients with the sleep apnoea/hypopnoea syndrome (SAHS), accurate and timely diagnostic evaluation and initiation of effective treatment is important. Therefore, an increasing number of limited sleep studies are now performed nowadays diagnosing the SAHS in typical patients. It was the aim of the present study to evaluate the diagnostic accuracy of one such system, the updated ResMed Sulliv...

Introduction: Erectile episodes occurring in the night time are considered normal and are usually related to the REM sleep. Spontaneous painful erections are unusual but they can have a great impact in the patient’s quality of sleep and, for consequence, quality of life. Report: We present a patient who has been presenting painful erections which wake him up almost every night. We discuss the w...

695 An Integrated Health-Economic Analysis of OSA—Pietzsch et al relied on aggregate quality-of-life assessments, as opposed to linking quality of life to relevant outcomes observed in OSA.2-6 In this study, we compare 3 commonly employed diagnostic modalities—full-night polysomnography (FN-PSG), split-night polysomnography (SN-PSG), and unattended portable home monitoring (UPHM)—and the establ...

The aim of the present study was to assess whether nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) treatment, applied for only a few hours at the beginning of the night, has any residual effect on sleep and breathing during the ensuing hours of unassisted sleep in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS). In 27 patients with newly-diagnosed OSAS, effective nCPAP was applied duri...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There are limited data on the night-to-night variability of childhood sleep-related disordered breathing (SDB). We aim to assess for the presence of first-night effect (FNE) and to examine whether a single-night sleep study is adequate in the assessment of childhood SDB. DESIGN In a case-control study investigating whether obesity is a risk factor for childhood SDB, ...

Sleep apnea is a serious and severely under-diagnosed sleep-related respiration disorder characterized by repeated disrupted breathing events during sleep. It diagnosed via polysomnography which an expensive test conducted in sleep lab requiring experts to manually score the recorded data. Since symptoms of are often ambiguous, it difficult for physician decide whether prescribe polysomnography...

BACKGROUND Overnight polysomnography is expensive and time consuming. An approach based on a logistic regression model and overnight pulse oximetry has been developed to determine which of the snorers referred to our sleep laboratory need polysomnography. METHODS The variables entered in the regression model were derived from questionnaires completed by 95 habitual snorers and 89 patients wit...

OBJECTIVE A case-controlled study to assess the effects of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) on platelet activation in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSAS) syndrome. METHODS We recruited 65 patients with suspected OSAS for this study. Blood samples were taken with the patient in the supine position in the morning immediately after polysomnography, and 1 night and 3 mont...

BACKGROUND We addressed the impact of patient education followed by frequent visits on compliance with positive airway pressure (PAP) treatment in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in a Turkish sleep clinic cohort. MATERIAL AND METHODS This single-center, randomized, controlled study was conducted in Istanbul, Turkey between June 2014 and April 2015. Among 115 eligible OSA patients (m...