Mouth breathing in obstructive sleep apnea prior to and during nasal continuous positive airway pressure

Respiration

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 40-45

  Ruhle, Karl Heinz ^a,b   Nilius, Georg ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WITTEN HERDECKE   (Germany)

^b Klinik Ambrock   (Germany)

Author keywords

Arousal; Mouth leak; Nasal continuous positive airway pressure; Obstructive sleep apnea

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AIRWAY PRESSURE; APNEA; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOUTH BREATHING; OXYGEN SATURATION; PNEUMOTACHYGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLEEP APNEA SYNDROME; SLEEP TIME;

CONTINUOUS POSITIVE AIRWAY PRESSURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOUTH BREATHING; POLYSOMNOGRAPHY; SLEEP APNEA, OBSTRUCTIVE; SLEEP STAGES;

EID: 46249115161     PISSN: 00257931     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000111806     Document Type: Article

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