This month, I interview Dr. Christian Guilleminault of Stanford University, who is one of the pioneers in sleep apnea diagnosis and treatment. We’re going to focus on Upper Airway Resistance Syndrome (UARS), which he discovered.
Here are some of the questions we covered:
– Describe to us what UARS is and how it’s different from OSA?
– Why is the AHI is limited when it comes to picking up UARS?
– How to diagnose UARS: Esophageal manometry vs. nasal cannula.
– How UARS patients have intact nervous systems, whereas sleep apnea (OSA) patients have diminished nervous systems, and what may cause progression from UARS to OSA?
– How do you treat patients with UARS? How is it different from treating sleep apnea?
– What are the dental options for UARS?
– How common is UARS in children and how can they be treated?
– And much more…
I don’t have a specific quequeBstion, just interested in the subject. I am tired of being tired. I have had a sleep study 10 years ago and last year did the overnight thing where you wear the gadget that monitors your breathing while you sleep. I don’t remember the specific results but it apparently didn’t show that I needed to have another sleep study.
I will have to listen to the recorded event and look forward to it.
Thanks,
Steve McLemore
Shall question in time lieu.
17 is this high pressure number fro CPAP
Dear Dr. Park,
Your article by Dr. Christian Guilleminault on UARS is very interesting,
the problem is, having such information is not enough, as, in many countries
access to sleep doctors who are receptive to new information is rare.
For example, in the UK, most sleep disorders go completely untreated
or perhaps go treated using the wrong medication, which often make the conditions worse, such as SSRI’s.
What path of action would you recommend for someone like myself, living in an back ward or low funded area (UK) who believes they have such a sleep disorder and wants to be tested and ideally get treatment for the illness.
Do you know of clinics that recognize the doctors work and who treat the condition?
Please help. Please contact me via email given above.
Thanks
Sorry to trouble you guys,
but how about Dr. Christian Guilleminault writing a book
or sending his articles to all the official national governing bodies of Sleep Medicine and Psychiatry so that his research is embraced by at least those who are receptive.
Otherwise, people are held to ransom by their own local sleep doctors, who often lack up to date information and in some cases, are completely useless.
Please write more books and help.
Thanks
Dr. Park’s work was recommended to me by allergist and orofunctional myologist, but I am well acquainted with Dr. Park’s Sleep Interrupted which introduced me to UARS, mouth breathing. I would like to see interview with UARS pioneer, Dr. Guillemineault.
Have formerly led a sleep apnea support group in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Yvonne,
Sorry about the technical issues accessing the recording. Please go back to the main page to find the download links.