Journal Reviews

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Long-term effectiveness of sleep surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea

2 March 2022 | | Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice | Continuous positive airway pressure, Expansion pharyngoplasty, Obstructive sleep apnea, Polysomnography

n this study, 39 patients from Turkey with obstructive sleep apnoea (of varying severity) underwent an expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty. This operation was devised by Prof Kenny Pang in Singapore and involves using the palatopharyngeus muscle and partly relocating it laterally...

OSA – do the parents know best?

9 September 2020 | | Paediatric ENT | Adenoidectomy, Parental Concern Questionnaire, Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea, Polysomnography, Tonsillectomy

The difficulty in using the history and examination to determine the severity of sleep disordered breathing in children is well established. The relative prevalence of sleep disordered breathing symptoms in children, and the relative paucity of capacity and restrictive cost...

Can telemetry predict sleep apnoea in Pierre Robin sequence?

1 November 2017 | | Obstructive sleep apnea, Pierre Robin Sequence, Polysomnography, Telemetry

The aim of this study was to see if telemetry data gathered on patients with Pierre Robin sequence (PRS) correlated with sleep study data. A retrospective review of 46 patients from a tertiary referral centre were included in the study....