When the In-Lab Sleep Study Gets It Wrong
When a patient, surprisingly, does not meet Inspire thresholds during in-lab PSG, a home sleep test rescues the case.
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Patient Presents With REM Sleep Behavior Disorder After COVID Infection
Clinicians are now recognizing sleep-related manifestations of long COVID. A sleep specialist sees a coronavirus infection as the only precipitant of RBD in a 69-year-old patient.
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Hybrid Therapy
A case study using hybrid therapy to treat a soon to be deployed soldier with obstructive and central sleep apnea.
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Misdiagnosed Sleep Apnea
Is positive airway pressure therapy overused?
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Breathing and Seizures
The case of a patient with breathing abnormalities caused by epilepsy.
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Sniffing Out the Obstruction
Examining the nasal turbinates as a potential source of obstruction in a pediatric Down syndrome patient. When a pediatric patient with Down syndrome presents with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA), multiple sources of obstruction are routinel
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Treating the Difficult RLS Patient
The Six Ds of RLS diagnosis and treatment.
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Diverse Disorders Multidisciplinary Management
A multidisciplinary approach to treating hydrocephalus and ADHD compounded by sleep-disordered breathing.
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Uncontrolled Intimacy: Sexual Sleep Disorders
Troublesome bedroom behavior posed by sexual sleep disorders can damage relationships and present serious problems for patients and bed partners.
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Treating the “Untreatable”
The simple facts about recognizing and managing complex sleep apnea.
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Examining Isolated and Recurrent Sleep Paralysis
In the case of two patients, sleep deprivation seemed to increase the frequency of their sleep paralysis events.
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CPAP May Help Headaches
Two patients suffering from migraine and OSA were successfully treated with nasal CPAP.
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Benefits of CPAP With Heated Humidification
In two different case scenarios, patients benefited from CPAP with heated humidification, which dramatically reduced their complaints of nasal difficulty and improved compliance.
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Sleep Apnea and the Dialysis Patient
A 49-year-old man on maintenance hemodialysis, diagnosed with severe OSA was treated successfully with bilevel pressure therapy dropping his ESS score from 20 down to 6.
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