Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Effectively Alleviates Arrhythmias in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Possible Relationship with Counteracting Oxidative Stress.

This work is aimed at exploring the clinical efficacy of continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in treatment of patients with arrhythmias combined with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Through evaluating serum native thiol, malonaldehyde (MDA) and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate oxidase (NADPH oxidase) in these patients and describing the effects on oxidative parameters of CPAP therapy for 3 months, we confirmed the impact of oxidative stress on arrhythmias. A total of 64 patients with OSA combined with arrhythmias were collected from April 2014 to April 2017 with full clinical information.

[Influence on antidiuretic hormone secretion in children with obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome].

Objective: To explore the influence of obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) in children on the secretion of antidiuretic hormone (ADH).

Methods: Thirty pediatric patients with OSAHS were examined with polysomnography (PSG) and urinary volume was recorded during sleep, and vein blood was sampled in deep sleep to detect the level of ADH in serum using radioimmunoassay technique, which were performed before and after adenotonsillectomy. Among twenty heath children were also detected the secretion of ADH as normal controls.

[Recurrent laryngeal nerve decompression].

Objective: To study the result of recurrent laryngeal nerve decompression in the treatment of functional disturbance of recurrent laryngeal nerve caused by thyroid surgery or thyroid benign tumors.

Methods: From October 2002 to June 2005, 9 cases of unilateral recurrent laryngeal nerve paralysis and 4 cases of glottic insufficiency were treated with recurrent laryngeal nerve decompression. Seven cases of the nerve paralysis were caused by the surgery of benign thyroid tumors resection which were done by general surgeons.