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Management of OSAS: The ELIBA® Device Can Help the Patient?

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is one of the most challenging diseases to treat in medicine. Here, the authors describe a case of OSAS treated with a lingual elevator of Balercia (ELIBA®). The patient, a forty-five-year-old Caucasian male, had a chief complaint of numerous episodes of noctu...

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Autores principales: Ortu, Eleonora, Pietropaoli, Davide, Mummolo, Alessandra, IAPNOR, Giannoni, Mario, Monaco, Annalisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7085363/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32231810
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9873761
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author Ortu, Eleonora
Pietropaoli, Davide
Mummolo, Alessandra
IAPNOR,
Giannoni, Mario
Monaco, Annalisa
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description Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is one of the most challenging diseases to treat in medicine. Here, the authors describe a case of OSAS treated with a lingual elevator of Balercia (ELIBA®). The patient, a forty-five-year-old Caucasian male, had a chief complaint of numerous episodes of nocturnal apnea. After several visits with specialists, a polysomnographic examination was performed, in which the patient's apnea hypopnea index (AHI) was 30.4, and a lingual elevator was prescribed. The lingual elevator helped to keep the patient's tongue in the correct position and prevented the tongue from reverting back to the soft tissue spaces in the mouth. After six months of treatment with the lingual elevator and dietary adjustments, the patient's AHI decreased to 11.6. This simple yet customizable approach is a comfortable and easy option for patients to reduce night apnea episodes.
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spelling pubmed-70853632020-03-30 Management of OSAS: The ELIBA® Device Can Help the Patient? Ortu, Eleonora Pietropaoli, Davide Mummolo, Alessandra IAPNOR, Giannoni, Mario Monaco, Annalisa Case Rep Dent Case Report Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is one of the most challenging diseases to treat in medicine. Here, the authors describe a case of OSAS treated with a lingual elevator of Balercia (ELIBA®). The patient, a forty-five-year-old Caucasian male, had a chief complaint of numerous episodes of nocturnal apnea. After several visits with specialists, a polysomnographic examination was performed, in which the patient's apnea hypopnea index (AHI) was 30.4, and a lingual elevator was prescribed. The lingual elevator helped to keep the patient's tongue in the correct position and prevented the tongue from reverting back to the soft tissue spaces in the mouth. After six months of treatment with the lingual elevator and dietary adjustments, the patient's AHI decreased to 11.6. This simple yet customizable approach is a comfortable and easy option for patients to reduce night apnea episodes. Hindawi 2020-03-04 /pmc/articles/PMC7085363/ /pubmed/32231810 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2020/9873761 Text en Copyright © 2020 Eleonora Ortu et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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