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Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Surgery

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Essentials of Sleep Medicine

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Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is, for most patients, a chronic condition that will require management across the lifespan. Like most chronic diseases, prevention of OSA remains the ideal and most attractive treatment from a public health perspective. At this juncture, however, management of the large population of patients diagnosed with sleep-related breathing disorders (as well as those who are still undiagnosed), remains the critical focus of most sleep physicians. As with hypertension, diabetes, and other chronic conditions, the individual treatment plan is not aimed at “cure,” but rather (1) symptom and quality of life improvement and (2) reduction of cardiovascular and general health risk.

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Soose, R.J., Strollo, P.J. (2012). Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Surgery. In: Badr, M. (eds) Essentials of Sleep Medicine. Respiratory Medicine. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-735-8_10

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