Effect of CPAP on sleep spindles in patients with OSA.

Objective: Consequences of OSAS include excessive daytime sleepiness, divided sleep architecture, impaired neurocognitive performance, and significant psychosocial disruption. In this study we aimed to evaluate sleep spindles changes before and after PAP treatment in patient with OSA.

Methods: Seventy-three consecutive patients (M/F:61/12) who applied to Sleep Disorders Center of Inonu University Hospital and met the inclusion criteria were enrolled to this study.

A pediatric case of pyomyositis presenting with septic pulmonary emboli.

Pyomyositis is a suppurative infection of skeletal muscle most commonly caused by Staphylococcus aureus. It is mainly encountered in children and immunocompromised. Eight year old previously healthy girl presented with confusion, fever and swelling of the right knee two days after a trauma.