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Eur Respir J 1999; 14: 1278-1282
Copyright © ERS Journals Ltd 1999

Clinical Trial

Protruding the tongue improves posterior rhinomanometry in obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome

A Coste, F Lofaso, MP d'Ortho, B Louis, E Dahan, R Peynegre, and A Harf

In posterior rhinomanometry (PRM), oropharyngeal pressure is measured using a tube placed between the tongue and the hard palate. For valid results the patient must position the tongue and soft palate so that both the oropharynx and nasopharynx remain open. A high rate of failure of conventional PRM has been reported in normal individuals. In patients with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome (OSAS), upper airway abnormalities may further increase the failure rate. This study proposes a modification of the technique in which protrusion of the tongue enhances pressure transmission between the nasopharynx and the mouth. In eight normal subjects, resistance was similar when measured by both methods. Of 24 OSAS patients, conventional PRM was unsuccessful in 11. In the remaining 13 patients, a significant correlation between the two methods was found, but resistance was lower by "tongue-out" than by conventional PRM, consistent with a decrease, during tongue protrusion, in retropalatal resistance, which is a component of the "nasal" resistance measured by PRM. In 26 OSAS patients, unilateral nasal resistance values measured by "tongue-out" PRM were similar to those measured by anterior rhinomanometry. When the "tongue-out" method was used routinely in 541 snorers, failure rates were 1.1% in the 272 non-OSAS patients and 3.7% in the 269 OSAS patients. These results indicate that posterior rhinomanometry with tongue protrusion is a highly effective tool for measuring nasal resistance in snorers.


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