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Article: Findings from Mayo Clinic provide new insights into obstructive sleep apnea.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- August 27, 2008
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According to a study from the United States, "Compliance with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy is one of the most difficult management problems for patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). We postulated that autotitration positive airway pressure (APAP) may be effective in some patients who have an intolerance of fixed CPAP."
"The study was done to estimate how often patients who cannot tolerate fixed CPAP can tolerate APAP. We identified 25 patients seen in the Sleep Disorders Center who had been treated with fixed CPAP for OSA and were intolerant of CPAP therapy despite multiple efforts to improve tolerance. We substituted APAP therapy and ...