Advances in Diagnosis and Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea
A special issue of Diagnostics (ISSN 2075-4418). This special issue belongs to the section "Pathology and Molecular Diagnostics".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 June 2024 | Viewed by 178
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
There are several types of sleep apnea, but the most common is obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). It often results in oxygen desaturation and arousal from sleep.
Obstructive sleep apnea occurs when the muscles in the back of your throat relax too much to allow normal breathing. These muscles support structures including the back of the roof of your mouth (soft palate), the triangular piece of tissue hanging from the soft palate (uvula), the tonsils, and the tongue. Several studies have demonstrated that craniofacial and soft tissue abnormalities such as mandibular retrognathia and adenoidal hypertrophy, as well as older age, male gender, and obesity, contribute to loss of airway patency in patients with OSA
Diagnosis of OSA requires a thorough clinical examination, a flexible nasendoscopy, and an overnight sleep study (polysomnogram). However, this is an expensive and time-consuming investigation that cannot precisely localize the site of obstruction. There is growing interest in using lateral cephalograms as a diagnostic tool. Meanwhile, cephalometric measurements like position and length of mandible, tongue, soft plate area, and facial height were also found to be different in OSA patients compared with healthy individuals.
This Special Issue focus on the advances in the pathology, symptom, diagnosis, and treatment of OSA; effective biomarkers of the pathogenesis and development of OSA; quality of life of people with OSA; and mechanisms linking diseases/disorders to OSA.
Dr. Andrea Bruni
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- medical diagnosis
- obstructive sleep apnea
- craniofacial structure
- airway
- cephalometric indices
- diagnosis and treatment of OSA
