A New Metric for Precision Medicine: PAP and Hypoglossal Neurostimulation

Affiliations

¹ Sleep Department, ENT and Allergy Associates, New York, New York.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Comment

Ofer Jacobowitz et al. J Clin Sleep Med. 2019.

. 2019 Aug 15;15(8):1079-1080.

doi: 10.5664/jcsm.7862.

¹ Sleep Department, ENT and Allergy Associates, New York, New York.
² Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Abstract

Jacobowitz O, Woodson BT. A new metric for precision medicine: PAP and hypoglossal neurostimulation. J Clin Sleep Med. 2019;15(8):1079-1080.

Therapeutic Positive Airway Pressure Level Predicts Response to Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.
Lee CH, Seay EG, Walters BK, Scalzitti NJ, Dedhia RC. Lee CH, et al. J Clin Sleep Med. 2019 Aug 15;15(8):1165-1172. doi: 10.5664/jcsm.7814. J Clin Sleep Med. 2019. PMID: 31482839 Free PMC article.

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