HSC Section 3 - Trauma, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine

Yaremchuk

The uneven response to surgery, brings us back to the conundrum of responders and nonresponders 2 for patients with obstructive sleep apnea. For individuals with anatomic obstruction at the level of the tonsils or retropalatal areas, UPPP and tonsil- lectomy is successful in 80% of patients. When UPPP with or without tonsillectomy is done in unselected series of patients, the success rate decreases to 50% or lower.

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