The Misunderstood Role of the Nose in Adult Sleep Disordered Breathing
Received Date: Sep 03, 2012 / Accepted Date: Sep 04, 2012 / Published Date: Sep 07, 2012
Abstract
Sleep disordered breathing reflects a spectrum of disorders ranging from simple or habitual aesthetic snoring, to Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) of varying severity. All of these entities result from increased upper airway resistance due to the summation of static and dynamic narrowing of any number of anatomical subsides in the upper aero digestive tract, including the nose, nasopharynx, retropalatal oropharynx, pharyngeal tonsil region, and retrolingual oropharynx
Citation: Meen EK, Chandra R (2012) The Misunderstood Role of the Nose in Adult Sleep Disordered Breathing. Otolaryngology 2:e107. Doi: 10.4172/2161-119X.1000e107
Copyright: © 2012 Meen EK, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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