The clinical presentation varies from no symptoms to severe cholangitis. [1] Patients may present with recurrent episodes of jaundice and cholangitis. It can be associated with acute cholecystitis. [emedicine.medscape.com]

[…] arterial hypertension (mainly resistant hypertension), recurrent atrial fibrilla-tion, stroke, myocardial infarction, pulmonary hyperten-sion, chronic heart failure, metabolic syndrome, COPD and bronchial asthma were assessed based on smoking exposure (present [pneumologia.eu]

• Hypoxemia

  These episodes determine sleep fragmentation, hypoxemia, hypercapnia, marked swings in intrathoracic pressure and increased sympathetic activity (4). [medichub.ro]

  OSA became a frequent syndrome with an estimated prevalence of 2-5% in gene-ral population, characterized by “pauses or apneas at least 10 per hour of sleep, with intermittent hypoxemia, sleep destruction, hypersomnolence and serious neuro-humoral and [pneumologia.eu]

• Sneezing

  When he is not actively hiccupping, Sands feels like he is about to hiccup at any moment, much like the tickle before a sneeze. "I'm curled up in a ball on the floor, writhing around in pain, drinking water." [abcnews.go.com]

• Increased Appetite

  "The're cognitively impaired, they have an increased appetite and decreased inhibitions," said Silber. Lori Haller always makes sure someone is with Eric during his periods of sleep. [abcnews.go.com]

• Insomnia

  Following the discovery of continuos positive airway pressure therapy (CPAP) through nasal mask, in 1981(5), the characteris-tics and consequences of OSA were considered, after insomnia, the sleep disturbance with the highest pre-valence in the general [pneumologia.eu]

  "If it's reversed naturally without medication and it's followed by three or four nights of complete insomnia, then it's a bipolar variant," said Dr. [abcnews.go.com]

• Irritability

  Martin Makary, director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Surgical Outcomes Research, who pointed out that the muscle can contract irregularly due to irritation or an abnormality such as a hole. [abcnews.go.com]

  […] apnea during night time sleep, difficulty with nocturnal sleep mainte-nance with unrefreshing sleep, excessive nicturia, mor-ning headaches, excessive daytime sleepiness (EDS), difficulty with concentration, memory loss (short-term), impaired cognition, irritability [pneumologia.eu]

• Somnolence

  The patients were clinically and paraclinically evalu-ated for various sleep disordered-breathing (SDB), including Epworth questionnaire and somnolence scale. [pneumologia.eu]

The treatment of OSAHS should be approached as the treatment for a chronic disease, requiring a long-term multidisciplinary management. [medichub.ro]

For now, Adler receives Botox treatments to the muscles surrounding her eyes. The injections often help her to keep her eyes open, but she said that the effectiveness of the treatments is starting to wane. [abcnews.go.com]

Percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography offers a reasonable option for diagnosis and the relief of obstructive symptoms preoperatively, especially when endoscopic treatment fails. [emedicine.medscape.com]

Risk factors and SAS comorbidities are not fully identified, but car-diovascular diseases (treatment-resistant hypertension, arrhythmias, myocardial infarction, sudden death)(7,8), metabolic diseases (obesity and diabetes), obstructive lung diseases [pneumologia.eu]

Epidemiological insights into the public health burden of sleep disordered breathing: sex differences into survival among sleep clinic patients. Thorax (1998) 53(suppl 3): 16-19. 3. Dempsey JA, Veasey SC, Morgan BJ, O’Donnell CP. [medichub.ro]

The pathophysiology of OSAHS is responsible for the signs, symptoms and consequences, and is represented by repetitive episodes of collapse of the upper airway. [medichub.ro]

Fortunately, Sosenko's condition is not painful nor has it prevented her from any of her favorite activities, such as yoga. "It's discomfort, it's not debiblitating," Sosenko said. [abcnews.go.com]