Abstract
Sleep disordered breathing is a spectrum of diseases that includes snoring, upperairway resistance syndrome and obstructive sleep apnea. It occurs more in obese males, resulting in hypertension and cardiac complications if untreated. There are various treatments, conservatively and surgically, starting from simple tonsillectomy to multi-level surgeries and multi discipline. Literature review was carried out on the pathophysiology, clinical presentation, complications, diagnosis and various treatments, using internet Google, search PubMed. Additional information was obtained by cross referencing, using text and journals in the medical libraries.Asian J. Med. Biol. Res. September 2016, 2(3): 361-369
Highlights
Sleep Disordered breathing is a spectrum of diseases which includes snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS), and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA)
Apnea-Hyponea Index (AHI) or Respiratory Disturbance Index (RDI) is an index used to indicate the severity of sleep apnea
Obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) is associated with repetitive collapse of the upper airway, partial or total resulting in apnea or hypopnea, specially during sleep for more than five times per hour AHI (Mabata et al, 2012) plus daytime sleepiness
Summary
1. Introduction Sleep Disordered breathing is a spectrum of diseases which includes snoring, upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS), and obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Sleep disordered breathing includes simple snorers, where patients snore without daytime somnolence and with a normal apnea-hyponea index AHI. Upper airway resistance syndrome (UARS) are patients with excessive daytime somnolence but a normal AHI.
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