Surgery for adult obstructive sleep apnoea.
Med J Aust
; 199(7): 450-1, 2013 Oct 07.
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| ID: mdl-24099190
ABSTRACT
Surgery rarely cures OSA, but the lack of cure should not be judged as failure. New higher-level evidence shows excellent clinical outcomes with surgery, in long-term health, short-term symptoms and quality of life, even when complete cure is not achieved. It is unrealistic and inappropriate to expect that surgery must result in a cure to be considered worthwhile. Evaluating surgical treatments is complicated because placebo control is usually not feasible with invasive therapies, randomisation to or away from invasive therapy may limit patient enrolment and generalisability, and surgery is a heterogeneous array of procedures and combinations of procedures. Despite these testing challenges, well controlled studies are showing important benefits of surgery and, moreover, of combinations of surgical procedures.
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01-internacional
Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Apneia Obstrutiva do Sono
Tipo de estudo:
Clinical_trials
Limite:
Adult
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Humans
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article