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Novel Therapies for Sleep Apnea—The Implants Have Arrived!

  • Edwin M. Valladares
  • , Terese C. Hammond

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Abstract

Positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy has been the standard treatment of choice for sleep disordered breathing, with 29–83% of patients being noncompliant. With the advent of newly Food and Drug Adminisatration (FDA)-approved implantable stimulators for treating sleep disordered breathing in a fraction of noncompliant PAP therapy patients, the landscape of sleep medicine and sleep technology is changing to narrow the gap between compliant and non-compliant patients. The remedē® System for treating central sleep apnea and the Inspire® upper airway stimulation (UAS) therapy for treating obstructive sleep apnea are providing new tools for sleep physicians, elevating sleep technologists’ expertise, and paving the way for personalized medicine.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)116-125
Number of pages10
JournalNeurodiagnostic Journal
Volume58
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - Apr 3 2018
Externally publishedYes

Keywords

  • Central sleep apnea
  • Inspire upper airway stimulation therapy
  • implant
  • respicardia remedē system
  • sleep apnea

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