Moreover, they stated that there is currently insufficient evidence to analyze the role of glossectomy as a stand-alone procedure for the treatment of OSA, although the evidence suggested positive outcomes in select patients.The authors stated that this study had some several drawbacks. There is ...
Aetna considers pharyngeal and lingual tonsillectomy medically necessary as an isolated procedure in adult OSA where hypertrophied tonsils compromise the airway space. A tonsillectomy is also considered medically necessary with UPPP in members who meet medical necessity criteria for UPPP below. An adenoidec...
Moreover, synaptosome preparations always contain contamination to some extent from other subcellular organelles and non-neuronal cell types. The applied procedure for synaptosome isolation is capable to enrich both the presynaptic and postsynaptic components of the synapses and to deplete the sample from...
P.R.H. designed the study, performed experiments, analyzed/interpreted data and wrote the manuscript with the guidance of A.S. and the other authors. E.S.P. helped conduct and analyze revisions, experiments and writing. Y.L. helped conduct, troubleshoot and analyze lipid droplet experiments....
in this study, a group of 22 children with psg-proven osas was identified by sleep endoscopy to have occult laryngomalacia subsequently treated with supraglottoplasty. all patients underwent preoperative and postoperative polysomnograms, which objectively demonstrate the efficacy of this procedure. ...
In 2008, in theJournal of Clinical Sleep Medicine, we published our first data on the PAP-NAP procedure along with details on how to organize the protocol in the sleep medical center environment. The study demonstrated benefits to insomnia patients with comorbid sleep apnea and increased adherence...
sensors Article A Wireless Monitoring System Using a Tunneling Sensor Array in a Smart Oral Appliance for Sleep Apnea Treatment Kun-Ying Yeh 1,*, Chao-Chi Yeh 2, Chun-Chang Wu 1 ID , Kuan Tang 1, Jyun-Yi Wu 1, Yun-Ting Chen 2, Ming-Xin Xu 2, Yunn-Jy Chen 3, Yao-Joe Yang 2...
Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT) is a facility based study that is used to measure the ability to stay awake and alert. The procedure protocol is similar to that of the MSLT, with the exception that an individual is given four nap trials, each trial consisting of a forty minute sessio...
A similar study, but this time including a combination of ECG, EDA and EEG signals, was conducted in [13], providing some evidence on the benefits of Tibetan Singing Bowls in metastatic cancer patients. The previously mentioned works have put special interest in the EDA signal, considered an ...