Drug-induced sleep endoscopy: the effect of different passive maneuvers on the distribution of collapse patterns of the upper airway in obstructive sleep apnea patients.

CONCLUSIONS: This study gives new insights into the changes in distribution of collapse patterns when passive maneuvers are applied during DISE. Jaw thrust and lateral head rotation gave improvement of obstruction mostly in line with previous research. The CNCC and CCC groups responded similarly to application of a single maneuver, but there was a significant difference found when both maneuvers were combined. PMID: 30338441 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30338441?dopt=Abstract

Source: Sleep and Breathing - October 18, 2018 Category: Sleep Medicine Authors: Beelen AMEH, Vonk PE, de Vries N Tags: Sleep Breath Source Type: research