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  • Title: [Polysomnographic results of surgical treatment of obstructive apnea syndrome].
    Author: Sheludchenko TP, Lopatin AS, Kalinkin AL, Barkova AM.
    Journal: Vestn Otorinolaringol; 2003; (4):28-32. PubMed ID: 13677020.
    Abstract:
    The study was made of 20 patients suffering from mild, moderate and severe snore and obstructive sleep apnea. The patients were treated surgically but because their upper respiratory pathology varied the intervention consisted of several one-stage operations in the nasal cavity, nasopharynx and oropharynx. To remove nasal obstruction, operations on the nasal septum and/or turbinated bones were made. Pharyngeal surgery varied from uvulotomy and volumetric reduction of the soft palate thickness to uvulopalatopharyngoplasty with tonsillectomy. The results of polysomnography performed after surgical intervention confirmed efficacy of surgical treatment. A more than 2-fold decrease of the index apnea/hypopnea was registered in 75% patients with moderate and in 83% patients with a severe form of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
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