Retrognathia and sleep apnea. A life-threatening condition masquerading as narcolepsy
- 11 April 1977
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 237 (15) , 1596-1597
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.237.15.1596
Abstract
The association of sleep apnea with daytime hypersomnolence without obesity, and its potentially lethal cardiopulmonary sequelae, make it crucial that this condition be distinguished from narcolepsy. A patient with retrognathia who had been diagnosed as a narcoleptic for 15 yr had the primary complaint of excessive daytime sleepiness. Sleep laboratory evaluation showed severe hypoxemia and a mean of 366 upper airway obstructions/night. The patient was treated with a tracheotomy; this resulted in relief of the sleep-related upper airway obstructions, hypoxemia and hypersomnolence.This publication has 2 references indexed in Scilit:
- Upper Airway Obstruction in Obese Patients with Sleep Disturbance and SomnolenceAnnals of Internal Medicine, 1972
- Hypoventilation in Acquired MicrognathiaArchives of internal medicine (1960), 1965