Articles

High incidence of posterior nasal cavity obstruction in obstructive sleep apnea patients

Nasal obstruction is a common problem in patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Systematic evaluation of nasal obstruction remains challenging due to the high number of variables and factors that contrib...

Authors: Carlos Torre, Robson Capasso, Soroush Zaghi, Ryan Williams and Stanley Yung-Chuan Liu

Likelihood of obstructive sleep apnea in people living with HIV in Cameroon – preliminary findings

Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) has been observed to be common among people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Sleep scales can be used to screen patients at increased “risk” of OSA who can benefit from polysomnograp...

Authors: Andreas Ateke Njoh, Eta Ngole Mbong, Valeri Oben Mbi, Michel Karngong Mengnjo, Leonard Njamnshi Nfor, Leonard Ngarka, Samuel Eric Chokote, Julius Yundze Fonsah, Samuel Kingue, Felicien Enyime Ntone and Alfred Kongnyu Njamnshi

Safeguarding the future of sleep medicine, research, and education

Authors: Clete A. Kushida

The case for using digital EEG analysis in clinical sleep medicine

Evaluation of sleep in clinical polysomnograms continues to rely almost exclusively on visual scoring that implements rules proposed by Rechtschaffen and Kales nearly 50 years ago. Apart from its cost and time...

Authors: Magdy Younes

Lung injury and inflammation response by chronic intermittent hypoxia in rats

Chronic intermittent hypoxia is the primary pathophsiological feature of obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome. The characteristics of CIH can be imitated by animal experiment models thus to study CIH rela...

Authors: Huan Lu, Xiaodan Wu, Cuiping Fu, Jing Zhou and Shanqun Li