… The scope of the present study focused on patients with a clinical suspicion of sleep apnea
regardless of additional respiratory disorders. Oxygen desaturation indexes (ODIs) and …

… oxygen saturation (SaO 2 ) data obtained from pulse oximetric recordings as a diagnostic
test for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) in patients clinically suspected of suffering this disease. …

… O 2 therapy significantly improves oxygen saturation in patients with OSA. … sleep apnea who
used CPAP had signifi-cant reduction in AHI compared to those who used nocturnal oxygen. …

… on AHI, oxygen saturation, and PSG parameters … sleep apnea severity. These parameters
were all found to correlate directly with the standard classification criteria for sleep apnea …

… The results of this study suggest that the oxygen saturation values … oxygen saturation in
sleep apnea patients have good correlations with each other, and with the severity of sleep apnea…

… the oxygen saturation during wakefulness sleep and apneas… patients, the oxygen saturation
during sleep in patients with … of OSA, especially during REM sleep. The impact of this upon …

… in which continuous low flow nocturnal oxygen was administered to patients with normal
lung function and predominantly mixed and obstructive sleep apnea. The findings reported in …

… oxygen saturation (SaO 2 ) during breath-holding in wakefulness and during apneas in
sleep. … We conclude that during breath-holding and in sleep apnea, the rate of fall in SaO 2 is …

… characteristics of nocturnal arterial oxygen saturation (Sao 2 ) and heart rate variability
obtained from pulse oximetric recording as a diagnostic test for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). …

… (PSG) in screening for obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome. Several oximetric indexes
have been derived from nocturnal blood oxygen saturation (SaO 2 ). However, they suffer …