STUDY OBJECTIVE: To study the spectrum of inspiratory flow signal shapes in patients with partial upper airway obstruction during sleep. DESIGN: We identified seven different inspiratory flow shapes and determined their frequencies in two groups of patients (10 postmenopausal women and 19 men after surgical treatment for sleep apnea) and in 9 control subjects. SETTING: Sleep research unit, Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Finland. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Nasal flow was recorded with nasal prongs. The shape analyses were performed with an automated attribute grammar recognizer. The inspiratory flow-shape distributions differed significantly between patients and control subjects. The flow shapes were also different between postmenopausal women and men after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. CONCLUSIONS: The differences in the inspiratory flow-shape distributions between the control subjects and the two patient groups suggest that the upper airways behave differently in the three study groups. Automated inspiratory flow-shape analysis seems to be a promising tool to distinguish patient groups with different upper airway function to be treated with different treatment alternatives. The physiologic correlates of each flow-shape class remain to be elucidated.
STUDY OBJECTIVE: To study the spectrum of inspiratory flow signal shapes in patients with partial upper airway obstruction during sleep. DESIGN: We identified seven different inspiratory flow shapes and determined their frequencies in two groups of patients (10 postmenopausal women and 19 men after surgical treatment for sleep apnea) and in 9 control subjects. SETTING: Sleep research unit, Department of Physiology, University of Turku, Finland. MEASUREMENTS AND RESULTS: Nasal flow was recorded with nasal prongs. The shape analyses were performed with an automated attribute grammar recognizer. The inspiratory flow-shape distributions differed significantly between patients and control subjects. The flow shapes were also different between postmenopausal women and men after uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. CONCLUSIONS: The differences in the inspiratory flow-shape distributions between the control subjects and the two patient groups suggest that the upper airways behave differently in the three study groups. Automated inspiratory flow-shape analysis seems to be a promising tool to distinguish patient groups with different upper airway function to be treated with different treatment alternatives. The physiologic correlates of each flow-shape class remain to be elucidated.
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