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SUBMITTER: Carvalho B
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3480570 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Carvalho Bettina B Hsia Jennifer J Capasso Robson R
Neurotherapeutics : the journal of the American Society for Experimental NeuroTherapeutics 20121001 4
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a disease characterized by intermittent and repetitive narrowing of the airway during sleep. Surgical therapies for the treatment of OSA aim to improve airway patency by addressing selected site(s) of obstruction. Because several areas may each be responsible for the narrowing, different surgical modalities have also been developed. In this review, we give an overview of surgery for each of potential obstruction site(s). As a consequence of the multi-factorial an ...[more]