What is it about?
Upper airway size and volume increases with stimulation and positive pressure and decreases with negative pressure.
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Why is it important?
OSA is a multisite disorder, and the actions of muscles on the airway are not detailed, particularly when unilateral hypoglossal nerve stimulation has the action to open the velopharynx. This illustrates this linkage and it may vary among individuals.
Perspectives
We produced movements like glossopharyngeal ("frog") breathing.
Kingman Strohl
Case Western Reserve University
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This page is a summary of: Hyoid Arch Displacement with Hypoglossal Nerve Stimulation, American Review of Respiratory Disease, September 2017, American Thoracic Society,
DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201612-2521le.
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