Issue 2/2012
Content (44 Articles)
Cerebral response to obstructive apnea: the times they are a-changin'
Brian B. Koo
How reliable is the manual correction of the autoscoring of a level IV sleep study (ApneaLink™) by an observer without experience in polysomnography?
Carlos Alberto Nigro, Silvana Malnis, Eduardo Dibur, Edgardo Rhodius
N. Foldray-Schaefer, J. Krishna, K. Budur (eds): a case a week: sleep disorders from the Cleveland clinic
Xiaosong Dong, Kingman P. Strohl
Endothelial mechanisms of endothelial dysfunction in patients with obstructive sleep apnea
Jing Feng, Dan Zhang, Baoyuan Chen
Comorbid insomnia in sleep-related breathing disorders: an under-recognized association
Suhaila E. Al-Jawder, Ahmed S. BaHammam
A rare cause of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome: lingual thyroid
Mehmet Ali Babademez, Emre Günbey, Baran Acar, Hediye Pınar Günbey
Impaired cerebral vasoreactivity may cause cerebral blood volume dip following obstructive sleep apnea termination
Jaakko Virtanen, Tommi Noponen, Tapani Salmi, Jussi Toppila, Pekka Meriläinen
Free-running (non-entrained to 24-h period) circadian sleep disorder in a patient with obstructive sleep apnea, delayed sleep phase tendency, and lack of social interaction
Tomasz J. Kuźniar, Ružica Kovačević-Ristanović, Cynthia L. Nierodzik, Loretta C. Smith
Remote monitoring of home-based noninvasive ventilation in children with obstructive sleep apnea–hypopnea syndrome
Dabo Liu, Jing Zhou, Xiuguang Liang, Zhenyun Huang, Zongyu Tan, Jianwen Zhong
Is automatic CPAP titration as effective as manual CPAP titration in OSAHS patients? A meta-analysis
Weijie Gao, Yinghui Jin, Yan Wang, Mei Sun, Baoyuan Chen, Ning Zhou, Yuan Deng
Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on blood pressure and daytime sleepiness in obstructive sleep apnea patients with coronary heart diseases under optimal medications
Qing Zhao, Zhi-hong Liu, Qin Luo, Zhi-hui Zhao, Hong-liang Zhang, Yong Wang
Increased systemic inflammation overnight correlates with insulin resistance among children evaluated for obstructive sleep apnea
Mark D. DeBoer, James P. Mendoza, Lei Liu, Gabriele Ford, Pearl L. Yu, Benjamin M. Gaston
Impaired circadian variation of platelet activity in patients with sleep apnea
Antonia Barceló, Javier Piérola, Mónica de la Peña, Guillem Frontera, Aina Yañez, Alberto Alonso-Fernández, Olga Ayllon, Alvar G. N. Agusti
Obstructive sleep apnea symptoms beyond sleepiness and snoring: effects of nasal APAP therapy
Ivo A. C. Cruz, Marta Drummond, João C. Winck
Nocturnal moaning and groaning—catathrenia or nocturnal vocalizations
Adnan A. Abbasi, Timothy I. Morgenthaler, Nancy L. Slocumb, Maja Tippmann-Peikert, Eric J. Olson, Kannan Ramar
Polysomnographic characteristics of daytime sleepiness in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Yuanfeng Sun, Yuping Ning, Lili Huang, Fei Lei, Zhe Li, Guangyao Zhou, Xiangdong Tang
Education in sleep disorders in US dental schools DDS programs
Michael Scott Simmons, Andrew Pullinger
Oxidative and carbonyl stress in patients with obstructive sleep apnea treated with continuous positive airway pressure
Peter Celec, Július Hodosy, Michal Behuliak, Roland Pálffy, Roman Gardlík, Lukáč Halčák, Imrich Mucska
Influence of upper airway size on volume exhaled under negative pressure during evaluation of upper airway collapsibility
Luigi Taranto Montemurro, Michela Bettinzoli, Luciano Corda, Stefania Redolfi, Mauro Novali, Alessia Braghini, Claudio Tantucci
Eight months of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) decrease tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNFA) in men with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Andrea Hegglin, Otto D. Schoch, Wolfgang Korte, Kirsten Hahn, Christoph Hürny, Thomas Münzer
Is obstructive sleep apnea syndrome a risk factor for auditory pathway?
Manuele Casale, Emanuela Vesperini, Massimiliano Potena, Marco Pappacena, Federica Bressi, Peter Jarden Baptista, Fabrizio Salvinelli
Novel mathematical processing method of nocturnal oximetry for screening patients with suspected sleep apnoea syndrome
Laurent Poupard, Carole Philippe, Michael David Goldman, Richard Sartène, Marc Mathieu
Catathrenia under sodium oxybate in narcolepsy with cataplexy
Francesca Poli, Lara Ricotta, Stefano Vandi, Christian Franceschini, Fabio Pizza, Vincenzo Palaia, Keivan Kaveh Moghadam, Donatella Banal, Roberto Vetrugno, Michael J. Thorpy, Giuseppe Plazzi
Short-term exposure to hypoxia for work and leisure activities in health and disease: which level of hypoxia is safe?
Martin Burtscher, Klemens Mairer, Maria Wille, Hannes Gatterer, Gerhard Ruedl, Martin Faulhaber, Günther Sumann
Correlations of sleep disorders with severity of obstructive airway disease in mustard gas-injured patients
Ensieh Vahedi, Saeed Taheri, Farshid Alaedini, Zohreh Poursaleh, Javad Ameli, Mostafa Ghanei
Age- and gender-related characteristics of obstructive sleep apnea
Itay E. Gabbay, Peretz Lavie
Normal and elevated HbA1C levels correlate with severity of hypoxemia in patients with obstructive sleep apnea and decrease following CPAP treatment
Isaac Shpirer, Micha J. Rapoport, David Stav, Arnon Elizur
Effects of continuous positive airway pressure on apnea–hypopnea index in obstructive sleep apnea based on long-term compliance
Boris A. Stuck, Sarah Leitzbach, Joachim T. Maurer
Analysis of anatomical and functional determinants of obstructive sleep apnea
Kensaku Aihara, Toru Oga, Yuka Harada, Yuichi Chihara, Tomohiro Handa, Kiminobu Tanizawa, Kizuku Watanabe, Takefumi Hitomi, Tomomasa Tsuboi, Michiaki Mishima, Kazuo Chin
Sleep in patients with large pleural effusion: impact of thoracentesis
Bianca Fernandes Marcondes, Francisco Vargas, Fabio Henrique Paschoal, Ana Maria Cartaxo, Lisete R. Teixeira, Eduardo Henrique Genofre, Roberto Onishi, Robert Skomro, Geraldo Lorenzi-Filho
EEG spectral analysis of apnoeic events confirms visual scoring in childhood sleep disordered breathing
Joel S. C. Yang, Christian L. Nicholas, Gillian M. Nixon, Margot J. Davey, Vicki Anderson, Adrian M. Walker, John Trinder, Rosemary S. C. Horne
The effect of one night of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on oxidative stress and antioxidant defense in hypertensive patients with severe obstructive sleep apnea
Mohammed A. Alzoghaibi, Ahmed S. BaHammam
Effects of chronic intermittent hypoxia on genioglossus in rats
Hanpeng Huang, Xiaofeng Zhang, Ning Ding, Qin Li, Yin Min, Xilong Zhang
The association of oxidative stress with central obesity in obstructive sleep apnea
Sang Don Lee, Gawon Ju, Ji-Ae Choi, Jeong-Whun Kim, In-Young Yoon
Prevalence, clinical features, and CPAP adherence in REM-related sleep-disordered breathing: a cross-sectional analysis of a large clinical population
Walter Conwell, Bhakti Patel, Diana Doeing, Sushmita Pamidi, Kristen L. Knutson, Farbod Ghods, Babak Mokhlesi
Head-and-neck paragangliomas are associated with sleep-related complaints, especially in the presence of carotid body tumors
Bas Havekes, Florine Kastelein, Agatha A. van der Klaauw, Nicolette van Duinen, Jeroen C. Jansen, Jan W. A. Smit, Klaas W. van Kralingen, Annette H. J. T. Vriends, Johannes A. Romijn, Eleonora P. M. Corssmit
The sleep/wake state scoring from mandible movement signal
Frederic Senny, Gisele Maury, Laurent Cambron, Amandine Leroux, Jacques Destiné, Robert Poirrier
Clinical presentation of shift workers to a sleep clinic
Harneet K. Walia, Amanda L. Hayes, Kathryn A. Przepyszny, Prudhvi Karumanchi, Sanjay R. Patel
Preliminary prospective explanatory observation on the impact of 3-month steroid therapy on the objective measures of sleep-disordered breathing
Gidon Berger, Emilia Hardak, Beatrice Shaham, Emili Avitan, Mordechai Yigla
Compliance to continuous positive airway pressure therapy in a group of Portuguese patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome
Claudia Alves, José Manuel Pinto Chaves Caminha, Antonio Martins da Silva, Denisa Mendonça
Adherence to CPAP therapy improves quality of life and reduces symptoms among obstructive sleep apnea syndrome patients
Eirini Avlonitou, Fotis Kapsimalis, George Varouchakis, Constantine I. Vardavas, Panagiotis Behrakis
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome is associated with some components of metabolic syndrome in nonobese adults
Qi-Chang Lin, Xiao-Bin Zhang, Gong-Ping Chen, Dou-Yu Huang, Hai-Bo Din, Ai-Zhong Tang
Association between osteoporosis and sleep duration in healthy middle-aged and elderly adults: a large-scale, cross-sectional study in Japan
Daiki Kobayashi, Osamu Takahashi, Gautam A. Deshpande, Takuro Shimbo, Tsuguya Fukui