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2021 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dieter Riemann
2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 61-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mitchell Levine ◽  
Kathleen Bennett ◽  
Michelle Cantwell ◽  
Kevin Postol ◽  
David Schwartz

SLEEP ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 44 (Supplement_2) ◽  
pp. A316-A317
Author(s):  
Folu Akinnusi ◽  
Daniel Rifkin

Abstract Introduction Ready access to optimal care for sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBD) remains a major barrier to the vast majority of an estimated 25 million Americans with undiagnosed obstructive sleep apnea. This barrier includes lack of readily available sleep medicine expert contact, health care insurance navigation challenges and difficulties with continuity of care. Chronic pervasive gaps in sleep medicine care were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. While numerous models were previously proposed to bridge SRBD care gaps, sustained and quantifiable success has been elusive. Methods Deploying interactive technology and artificial intelligence, we designed and implemented a novel, user-friendly integrated medium named Ognomy - the Sleep Apnea App, to mitigate widespread SRBD care access gaps. Multi-faceted but unified open access was made widely available, allowing bidirectional patient-provider interaction through a Web App. Individuals or surrogates who suspect that they or dependents suffer from SRBD are able to readily establish secure access to Ognomy. Patients can independently download and interact with the application on-demand and around the clock. Results From April 2020 to date, more than seven thousand (7,726) Ognomy App downloads have been documented. Over a thousand (1,169) patient registrations have occurred on Ognomy. Five hundred seventy-four (49.1%) of Ognomy App registrants have since been provided hitherto difficult, cumbersome access to full care, by a board-certified Sleep Medicine provider. Four hundred eighty-nine (85.2%) of the 574 patients managed via Ognomy’s care provision chain proceeded to complete sleep diagnostic testing and follow up. Conclusion Availability of a readily accessible and affordable multi-faceted platform for care of sleep-related breathing disorders will mitigate the burden of untreated SRBD in the United Sates and worldwide. Ognomy, a Sleep as a Software service, is a novel integrated tool, bridging chronic gaps in sleep apnea care. Measures that significantly alter the trajectory of Sleep Medicine care now and in the future, have the potential to systematically close existing SRBD care gaps worldwide. Innovative tools such as algorithmic scheduling, Blockchain utility for platform interoperability, facilitating insurance benefit verifications, deployed in tandem with delivery drone systems for home sleep testing, should enhance turnaround time and improve care currently available for SRBD. Support (if any):


2021 ◽  
pp. 204589402199693
Author(s):  
Etienne-Marie Jutant ◽  
David Montani ◽  
Caroline Sattler ◽  
Sven Günther ◽  
Olivier Sitbon ◽  
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Introduction. Sleep-related breathing disorders, including sleep apnea and hypoxemia during sleep, are common in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH), but the underlying mechanisms remain unknown. Overnight fluid shift from the legs to the upper airway and to the lungs promotes obstructive and central sleep apnea, respectively, in fluid retaining states. The main objective was to evaluate if overnight rostral fluid shift from the legs to the upper part of the body is associated with sleep-related breathing disorders in PAH. Methods. In a prospective study, a group of stable patients with idiopathic, heritable, related to drugs, toxins, or treated congenital heart disease PAH underwent a polysomnography and overnight fluid shift measurement by bioelectrical impedance in the month preceding or following a one-day hospitalization according to regular PAH follow-up schedule with a right heart catheterization. Results. Among 15 patients with PAH (women: 87%; median [25th;75th percentiles] age: 40 [32;61] years; mean pulmonary arterial pressure 56 [46;68] mmHg; pulmonary vascular resistance 8.8 [6.4;10.1] Wood units), 2 patients had sleep apnea and 8 (53%) had hypoxemia during sleep without apnea. The overnight rostral fluid shift was 168 [118;263] mL per leg. Patients with hypoxemia during sleep had a greater fluid shift (221 [141; 361] mL) than those without hypoxemia (118 [44; 178] mL, p = 0.045). Conclusion. This pilot study suggests that hypoxemia during sleep is associated with overnight rostral fluid shift in PAH.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 141
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Lecka-Ambroziak ◽  
Marta Wysocka-Mincewicz ◽  
Anna Świercz ◽  
Małgorzata Jędrzejczak ◽  
Mieczysław Szalecki

Sleep-related breathing disorders (SRBDs) can be present in children with simple obesity and with Prader–Willi syndrome (PWS) and influence an individual diagnostic and treatment approach. We compared frequency and severity of SRBDs in children with simple obesity and with PWS, both without and on recombinant human growth hormone (rhGH) treatment, and correlation of SRBDs with insulin resistance tests. A screening polysomnography-polygraphy (PSG), the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) and homeostasis model assessment of insulin resistance (HOMA-IR) were analysed in three groups of patients—with simple obesity (group 1, n = 30, mean age 14.2 years), patients with PWS without the rhGH therapy (group 2, n = 8, mean age 13.0 years) and during the rhGH treatment (group 3, n = 17, mean age 8.9 years). The oxygen desaturation index (ODI) was significantly higher in groups 2 and 3, compared to group 1 (p = 0.00), and hypopnea index (HI) was higher in group 1 (p = 0.03). Apnea–hypopnea index (AHI) and apnea index (AI) results positively correlated with the insulin resistance parameters in groups 1 and 3. The PSG values worsened along with the increasing insulin resistance in children with simple obesity and patients with PWS treated with rhGH that may lead to a change in the patients’ care.


2014 ◽  
Vol 20 (6) ◽  
pp. 324-335
Author(s):  
A. Nicolini ◽  
P. Banfi ◽  
B. Grecchi ◽  
A. Lax ◽  
S. Walterspacher ◽  
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1994 ◽  
Vol 114 (sup517) ◽  
pp. 6-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
N. Kakitsuba ◽  
T. Sadaoka ◽  
S. Motoyama ◽  
Y. Fujiwara ◽  
R. Kanai ◽  
...  

SLEEP ◽  
1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 479-484 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tatsuya Sadaoka ◽  
Noriya Kakitsuba ◽  
Yuki Fujiwara ◽  
Ryuichi Kanai ◽  
Hiroaki Takahashi

2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (5) ◽  
pp. 745-758 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas E Vanhecke ◽  
Barry A Franklin ◽  
Steven C Ajluni ◽  
R Bart Sangal ◽  
Peter A McCullough

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