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1 Introduction Sleep-disordered breathing results from a combination of factors affecting upper airway patency and the control of ventilation. Although the mechanisms underlying upper airway collapse are incompletely understood, a decline in pharyngeal neuromuscular activity during sleep appears to play…
1 Nasal Obstruction and Sleep-Disordered Breathing The link between nasal airway obstruction (NAO) and restless sleep has been known since antiquity: Hippocrates reported an association between poor sleep and nasal polyposis. Case reports and series as early as the 1890s…