Association of Backscattered Ultrasonographic Imaging of the Tongue With Severity of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Adults.

Stanley Y C Liu¹, Pien F N Bosschieter¹, Mohammed Abdelwahab^1,2, Pei-Yu Chao³, Argon Chen^3,4, Clete Kushida⁵

¹Department of Otolaryngology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

²Department of Otolaryngology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.

³AmCad Biomed Corporation, Taipei, Taiwan.

⁴Graduate Institute of Industrial Engineering, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.

⁵Division of Sleep Medicine, Department of Psychiatry, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.

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Abstract

IMPORTANCE: Determining interventions to manage obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) depends on clinical examination, polysomnography (PSG) results, and imaging analysis. There remains the need of a noninvasive and cost-effective way to correlate relevant upper airway anatomy with severity of OSA to direct treatment and optimize outcome. OBJECTIVE: To determine whether backscattered ultrasonographic ima…

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