This study aimed to evaluate the effect of isolated nasal surgery on sleep-disordered breathing, particularly apnea-hypopnea index (AHI) and snoring index (SI), Apnea index (AI) and minimal arterial oxygen saturation (MAO2) in adults with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) and nasal obstruction.
Snoring is the noisy breathing that occurs throughout sleep, resulting from the vibration of the structures in the oral cavity, including the soft palate, uvula, tonsils, base of the tongue, epiglottis, as well as pharyngeal walls. Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a respiratory sleep disorder distinguished by repeated episodes of partial or total occlusion of the upper airways throughout sleep. This blockage is typically associated with a decrease (hypopnea) or total cessation (apnea) of airflow in the upper airways, and sustained thoracic-diaphragmatic respiratory movements.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
30
Patients with nasal septal deviation and hypertrophied inferior turbinate (HIT) who underwent septoplasty with partial inferior turbinectomy.
Patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps who underwent functional endoscopic sinus surgery (FESS) with nasal polypectomy.
Patients with isolated hypertrophied inferior turbinate (HIT) who underwent partial inferior turbinectomy alone.
Al-Azhar University
Cairo, Egypt
Apnea-Hypopnea Index
The Apnea-Hypopnea Index (AHI) is a critical metric used to diagnose and rank the severity of sleep apnea. It measures the average number of times your breathing completely stops (apneas) or becomes severely shallow (hypopneas) per hour of sleep.
Time frame: 3 months postoperatively
Snoring index
The snoring index was defined as the number of snoring episodes divided by the hours of total sleep time
Time frame: 3 months postoperatively
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