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Filter by:This is a prospective, interventional cohort study of drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE). The goal is to evaluate the upper airway in a cohort of patients with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) diagnosed in a prior polysomnography. This study correlates the sedation level measured by entropy during DISE using propofol via a TCI pump with the local obstruction patterns of the upper airway according to the VOTE classification. As OSAHS is a widespread disease and the DISE procedure has become a common tool for diagnosis and evaluation of further treatment, a growing number of research articles deal with this topic. These articles are available through pubmed.
The purpose of this study is to compare the effectiveness of telemonitoring versus standard follow-up on CPAP treatment compliance in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS).
Study objetives : The aim of this study is to assess the impact of a combined therapy treatment (physical exercise, oropharyngeal exercises and dietary recommendations) on symptoms and quality of life in patients with OSAS, as an alternative or addition to therapeutic treatment with nocturnal CPAP.
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a highly prevalent chronic sleep disorder that affects 3% to 7% in middle aged individuals and increases with age. OSA has been identified as the most common secondary cause associated with resistant hypertension. There is evidence that compared with older patients, the risk of hypertension in OSA patients may be particularly pronounced in younger adult ones (less than 50 years). Traditionally, cardiovascular risk stratification in hypertensive patients was based on the average blood pressure (BP) measured in the clinic. Accumulated data has shown that target-organ damage is related not only to 24-h mean intra-arterial BP, but also to BP variability (BPV) in subjects with essential hypertension. Growing evidence demonstrated that BPV has considerable prognostic value for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular outcomes, independent of average BP. In addition, it has been found that hypoxia condition in pneumoconiosis patients was closely associated with exaggerated BPV in ambulatory BP. However, the selections of antihypertensive drugs remain yet not very clearly for hypertensive patients combined with OSA.
The prevalence of sleep-disordered breathing is common in patients with stable chronic heart failure (up to 83%). Basically, the SAS is divided into two categories: central SAS (CSAS) and obstructive SAS (OSAS). The two can coexist. In patients with CHF, the presence of SAS is associated with higher mortality. CHF is associated with a high rate of re-hospitalization and significant morbidity and mortality and is considered as a major medical and economic problem. To date, few studies have investigated the prevalence, severity, persistence and the role of SAS during cardiac decompensation. For different pathophysiological considerations, it is assumed that SAS is exacerbated during AHF. Therefore SAS is not conventionally screened during this phase. This assumption has been questioned recently by some studies which showed stability of the type of SAS and its severity between the decompensation episode and the stable HF. Our hypothesis is that SAS during an AHF episode of CHF will remain stable both in terms of severity and type at three months of decompensation. Thus early polygraphy may be reliable for identifying HF patients with SAS.
Hypothesis: To address the role of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)on nocturnal glycemia in patients having type 1 diabetes and sleep apnea syndrome. Investigators make the hypothesis that sleep apnea syndrome impacts nocturnal glycemia in type 1 diabetic patients and that continuous positive airway pressure treatment will permit to improve the nocturnal glycemic profile. Study design: Adult patients with type 1 diabetes will be recruited for an extensive study of sleep habits and assessment of sleep breathing disorders. When patients will present with severe sleep apnea syndrome (apnea-hypopnea index above 30 events/hour) and insufficient glycemic control (HbA1c > 7.5%), they will be randomized in continuous positive airway pressure treatment or sham-continuous positive airway pressure treatment group for three months. Main outcome: Nocturnal glycemic control will be assessed for 5 days before and after three months of the allocated treatment.
In this study it will be analyzed how often the sleep apnea syndrome can be observed in patients with newly diagnosed lung cancer with the help of ApneaLink device by ResMed.
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSA) is characterized by the manifestation of excessive sleepiness secondary to repeated obstruction of the upper airway during sleep and cognitive-behavioral, respiratory, cardiac, metabolic or inflammatory disorders. Epidemiological studies in our country have shown that OSA is a highly prevalent disease in the general population, affecting 2-4% of the adult population. The most important clinical manifestations of OSAS is a deterioration in the quality of life and an increase in cardiovascular disease. OSA is also associated with traffic accidents. Therefore, and considering the medical complications of OSA, as well as the sociolaboral impact and its negative impact on quality of life and survival; is stated that this disease is a public health problem that requires the physician to identify patients eligible to treatment. Moreover, it has been shown that undiagnosed patients, duplicate the consumption of health resources, comparing when the diagnosis and treatment has been established. Finally, we have a highly effective treatment using positive pressure in the upper airway (CPAP) that has been shown to be effective and cost-effective. The current situation in which all patients diagnosed with OSA and receiving different treatments are monitored and controlled by the Sleep Units (SU) is an oversized medicine specialist at the expense of primary care (PC). Our working hypothesis is: "By the coordination of actions at various levels including interactive training equipment AP, use the bilateral (SU-AP) of electronic medical records and the use of new technologies can be achieved in AP satisfactory management of the diagnostic and therapeutic process of patients with suspected OSA. Patients assisted in both areas have a level of clinical response, satisfaction, compliance and avoidance of complications, similar to that obtained with monitoring by SU. In addition, management by AP will be more cost-effective than in the SU."
Venous thromboembolism(VTE) is the third most common cardiovascular complication among hospitalized patients, and can even cause death. VTE often occurs in intensive care patients and there had been many efforts to prevent such complication. The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) had published evidence-based clinical practice guideline for VTE prophylaxis. This study focuses on how VTE prophylaxis is being performed in both medical and surgical ICUs in a single University hospital, and sees the differences in such prophylactic patterns.
Ischemic stroke is a kind of common disease with great harm. In acute stage of stroke there is sharply increasing morbidity of sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome. Our suppose that treatment with noninvasive ventilation for patients with acute ischemic stroke should improve the functional prognosis(measuring with 90d modified Rankin score).