Sleep Apnea and Snoring Surgical and Non-Surgical Therapy

The role of otolarynologist in the treatment of snoring and obstructive sleep apnea -- Signs and symptoms of obstructive sleep apnea and upper airway resistance syndrome -- Airway evaluation in obstructive sleep apnea -- Clinical polysomnography -- Home sleep testing -- Drug-induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) -- Obstructive sleep apnea : decision making and treatment planning -- CPAP, APAP, and BiPAP -- Analysis of CPAP failures -- Oral appliances for OSA -- Rationale and indications for surgical treatment -- The impact of surgical treatment of OSA on cardiac risk factors -- Perioperative and anesthesia management -- Friedman tongue position and the staging of obstructive sleep apnea/hypopnea syndrome -- Algorithm for surgery : paptopharyngoplasty first and foremost -- Algorithm for multilevel treatment : the Riley, Powell, and Liu Stanford experience -- Lingual tonsil hypertrophygrading system -- The effect of oral positioning on hypopharyngeal airway dimensions -- Algorithm for multilevel treatment : Friedman experience -- Nasal obstruction and sleep-disordered breathing -- Minimally invasive nasal valve repair -- Plastic surgery techniques for correction of nasal obstruction -- New techniques in nasal valve repair -- Inferior turbinate reduction -- Role of laser surgery in treatment of OSA -- Cautery-assisted palatal stiffening operation and anterior palatoplasty -- Injection snoreplasty -- Sling snoreplasty -- Elevoplasty -- Palatal implants for primary snoring : short- and long-term results of a new, minimally invasive surgical technique -- Classic uvulopalatopharyngoplasty -- Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty : patient selection and effects on the airway -- Zeta palatopharyngoplasty (ZPP) -- The uvulopalatal flap -- Modified uvulopalatopharyngoplasty with uvula preservation -- Transpalatal advancement pharyngoplasty -- Expansion sphincter pharyngoplasty -- Barbed snore surgery (BSS) -- Fundamentals of minimally invasive radiofrequency applications in ear, nose, and throat medicine -- Radiofrequency tissue effects -- Endoscopic coblator open tongue base resection for obstructive sleep apnea -- Tongue base stabilization for obstructive sleep apnea and snoring -- Endoscopic coblation lingual tonsillectomy -- Electrical stimulation of the upper airway -- Upper airway stimulation : implanted neurostimulation device treatment of obstructive sleep apnea -- Multilevel pharyngeal surgery for obstructive sleep apnea -- External submucosal glossectomy -- Genioglossus advancement in sleep apnea surgery -- Hyoid suspension as the only procedure -- Management of the epiglottis -- Transoral robotic surgery (TORS) for OSA -- Multilevel surgery with or without genioglossal advancement -- Maxillofacial surgical techniques for hypopharyngeal obstruction in obstructive sleep apnea -- Modified maxillomandibular advancement technique -- Distraction osteogenesis maxillary expansion (DOME) for adult obstructive sleep apnea patients -- Tracheostomy for sleep apnea -- Speech-ready, long-term tube-free tracheostomy for obstructive sleep apnea -- The perioperative management of patients with obstructive sleep apnea -- Multimodality management of nasopharyngeal stenosis after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty -- Current techniques for the treatment of velopharyngeal insufficiency -- Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty: analysis of failure -- Salvage of failed palate procedures for sleep-disordered breathing -- Revision uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) for Z-palatoplasty (ZPP) -- Management of sleep-related breathing disorders in children -- Evaluation and management of persistent pediatric obstructive sleep apnea -- Current techniques of adenoidectomy -- Intracapsular microdebrider-assisted and coblation tonsillectomy -- Laryngomalacia -- Drug-induced sleep endoscopy in children -- Prevention and correction of pediatric SDB/OSA and post-T&A relapse : a non-surgical orthodontic/dentofacial orthopedic approach -- Innovations in surgical treatment of OSA.