Enhanced upper-airway muscle responsiveness is a distinct feature of overweight/obese individuals without sleep apnea

SA Sands, DJ Eckert, AS Jordan… - American journal of …, 2014 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Body habitus is a major determinant of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). However,
many individuals do not have OSA despite being overweight/obese (body mass index> 25 …

Drug‐induced sleep endoscopy and hypoglossal nerve stimulation outcomes: a multicenter cohort study

P Huyett, DT Kent, MA D'Agostino, KK Green… - The …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Objectives/Hypothesis To determine the association between findings of blinded reviews of
preoperative drug‐induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) and outcomes of hypoglossal nerve …

Randomized controlled withdrawal study of upper airway stimulation on OSA: short-and long-term effect

BT Woodson, MB Gillespie, RJ Soose… - … --Head and Neck …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective To assess the efficacy and durability of upper airway stimulation via the
hypoglossal nerve on obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) severity including objective and …

Desipramine improves upper airway collapsibility and reduces OSA severity in patients with minimal muscle compensation

L Taranto-Montemurro, SA Sands… - European …, 2016 - Eur Respiratory Soc
We recently demonstrated that desipramine reduces the sleep-related loss of upper airway
dilator muscle activity and reduces pharyngeal collapsibility in healthy humans without …

Updates of operative techniques for upper airway stimulation

C Heiser, E Thaler, M Boon, RJ Soose… - The …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Selective upper airway stimulation has been established as an additional treatment for
obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Essential for the treatment is the precise placement of the …

Perioperative management of obstructive sleep apnea in bariatric surgery: a consensus guideline

CAL De Raaff, MAW Gorter-Stam, N De Vries… - Surgery for Obesity and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background The frequency of metabolic and bariatric surgery (MBS) is increasing
worldwide, with over 500,000 cases performed every year. Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is …

Referral of adults with obstructive sleep apnea for surgical consultation: an American Academy of Sleep Medicine systematic review, meta-analysis, and GRADE …

D Kent, J Stanley, RN Aurora, CG Levine… - Journal of Clinical …, 2021 - jcsm.aasm.org
Introduction: This systematic review provides supporting evidence for the accompanying
clinical practice guideline on the referral of adults with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) for …

Upper airway stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea: durability of the treatment effect at 18 months

Sleep, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Objective: To determine the stability of improvement in polysomnographic measures of sleep
disordered breathing, patient reported outcomes, the durability of hypoglossal nerve …

Upper airway stimulation for obstructive sleep apnea: results from the ADHERE registry

M Boon, C Huntley, A Steffen… - … –Head and Neck …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Objective Upper airway stimulation (UAS) is an alternative treatment option for patients
unable to tolerate continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) for the treatment of …

Sleep‐disordered breathing in heart failure

SG Pearse, MR Cowie - European journal of heart failure, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Sleep‐disordered breathing—comprising obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), central sleep
apnoea (CSA), or a combination of the two—is found in over half of heart failure (HF) …