Examining the impact of multilevel upper airway surgery on the obstructive sleep apnoea endotypes and their utility in predicting surgical outcomes

Autor: Ai‐Ming Wong, Shane A. Landry, Simon A. Joosten, Luke D. J. Thomson, Anthony Turton, Jeremy Stonehouse, Darren R. Mansfield, Glen Burgess, Andrew Hays, Scott A. Sands, Christopher Andara, Caroline J. Beatty, Garun S. Hamilton, Bradley A. Edwards
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Respirology (Carlton, Vic.). 27(10)
ISSN: 1440-1843
Popis: Upper airway surgery for obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is an alternative treatment for patients who are intolerant of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP). However, upper airway surgery has variable treatment efficacy with no reliable predictors of response. While we now know that there are several endotypes contributing to OSA (i.e., upper airway collapsibility, airway muscle response/compensation, respiratory arousal threshold and loop gain), no study to date has examined: (i) how upper airway surgery affects all four OSA endotypes, (ii) whether knowledge of baseline OSA endotypes predicts response to surgery and (iii) whether there are any differences when OSA endotypes are measured using the CPAP dial-down or clinical polysomnographic (PSG) methods.We prospectively studied 23 OSA patients before and ≥3 months after multilevel upper airway surgery. Participants underwent clinical and research PSG to measure OSA severity (apnoea-hypopnoea index [AHI]) and endotypes (measured in supine non-rapid eye movement [NREM]). Values are presented as mean ± SD or median (interquartile range).Surgery reduced the AHISurgery unpredictably alters upper airway collapsibility but does not alter the non-anatomical endotypes. There are no baseline predictors of response to surgery.
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