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Management of OSAS: The ELIBA® Device Can Help the Patient?
| العنوان: | Management of OSAS: The ELIBA® Device Can Help the Patient? |
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| المؤلفون: | Eleonora Ortu, Davide Pietropaoli, Alessandra Mummolo, IAPNOR, Mario Giannoni, Annalisa Monaco |
| المصدر: | Case Reports in Dentistry, Vol 2020 (2020) |
| بيانات النشر: | Hindawi Limited, 2020. |
| سنة النشر: | 2020 |
| المجموعة: | LCC:Dentistry |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Dentistry, RK1-715 |
| الوصف: | 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. |
| نوع الوثيقة: | article |
| وصف الملف: | electronic resource |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 2090-6447 2090-6455 |
| Relation: | https://doaj.org/toc/2090-6447; https://doaj.org/toc/2090-6455 |
| DOI: | 10.1155/2020/9873761 |
| URL الوصول: | https://doaj.org/article/ead029a11bf743ef98aad1e865c3e413 |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsdoj.029a11bf743ef98aad1e865c3e413 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | Directory of Open Access Journals |
Full Text Finder | تدمد: | 20906447 20906455 |
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| DOI: | 10.1155/2020/9873761 |