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• TITLE: Polysomnographic findings of obstructive sleep apnea in children with adenotonsillar hypertrophy

  AUTHORS: Érico Campos Moreira Silva, Vinícius S. Moraes, Helena Protetti, Silke T. Weber

  KEYWORDS: Polysomnogram; Sleep Architecture; Children; Obstructive Sleep Apnea; Sleep Disordered Breathing

  JOURNAL NAME: Health, Vol.5 No.8B, August 14, 2013

  ABSTRACT: Serous Background: There are few studies assessing the clinical manifestations of sleep breathing disorders and polysomnograms in several pediatric age ranges. This studied aimed to assess polysomnography results such as apnea-hypopnea index, mean oxygen saturation and sleep efficiency in children presenting with airway obstruction and adenotonsillar hypertrophy complaints, and to establish whether they are correlated to age and sex. Methods: A retrospective study with children of both sexes, aged between 2 and 12 years, with clinically suspected obstructive sleep apnea syndrome and adenotonsillar hypertrophy, who underwent polysomnography before surgery. The children were allocated to groups according to their age range (Group I: 2 to 4 years old; Group II: 5 to 8 years old; Group III: 9 to 12 years old). Apnea-hypopnea index, mean oxygen saturation and sleep efficiency data were compared between sexes and among the three groups (Student’s t test, p