Effect of continuous positive airway pressure therapy on infectious complications in patients with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Respiration

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 2001, Pages 483-487

  Sanner, Bernd M ^a   Fluerenbrock, Nicole ^a   Kleiber Imbeck, Anja ^b   Mueller, Jochen B ^a   Zidek, Walter ^a  

^a RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

^b RUHR UNIVERSITY BOCHUM   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous positive airway pressure; Humidity; Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EQUIPMENT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMIDIFIER; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; POSITIVE END EXPIRATORY PRESSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; UPPER RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; COMMUNICABLE DISEASES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; HUMIDITY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSITIVE-PRESSURE RESPIRATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE;

EID: 0034761699     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000050555     Document Type: Article

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