Sleep Apnea Syndrome in Children: A Retrospective Study of 419 Cases and Polysomnographic Findings with Implications for Rapid Treatment.

Sleep-related disorders are responsible for many serious health conditions, one of these being sleep apnea syndrome, which arises through various mechanisms. Polysomnography is currently used as the gold standard method for diagnosing patients suffering from sleep breathing disorders, thus enabling accurate and swift clinical diagnosis. By using the parameters obtained from polysomnography, this retrospective study has aimed to determine the groups of children that are particularly vulnerable to severe forms of breathing disorders, divided according to diagnoses made of tonsillar hypertrophy forms and sleep apnea as well as by the severity grades and types of apnea, to facilitate rapid and appropriate treatment.