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Zorana Stamenkovic, Julio de Araujo Gurgel, Nenad Popovic and Nemanja Marinkovic
Aim of the study was to show the effect of skeletal Class II treatment with the mandibular anterior repositioning appliance (MARA) on the sagittal posterior airway space (PAS) diameter. A total of 53 patients were selected retrospectively: 26 male patien...
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Zsofia Jokkel, Marcell Szily, Marton Piroska, Helga Szabó, Anita Hernyes, Gergely Szabó, Ildikó Kalina, Pál Maurovich-Horvat, David Laszlo Tarnoki and Adam Domonkos Tarnoki
Background: Recurrent upper airway obstruction during sleep is a common feature of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA). Risk factors for the development of OSA include obesity, male gender and smoking. In addition, anatomical factors contribute to the developm...
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Shuliang Xie, Gang Wang, Enmao Wang, Qiming Huang and Mingze Xia
Coal fire remains one of the main hazards of underground work. Spontaneous coal fires cause serious casualties and property losses. At present, most of the studies on coal spontaneous combustion have been conducted on working faces shorter than 200 m. Ho...
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Daniela Mokra, Romana Barosova and Juraj Mokry
Sex-based differences in bronchial asthma can already be observed in childhood, at which time allergic atopic asthma is more frequently found in boys than in girls. In adulthood, higher prevalence of asthma is reported in women, especially for the more s...
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Haytham Jamil Alswairki, Mohammad Khursheed Alam, Shaifulizan Ab Rahman, Rayan Alsuwailem and Sarah Hatab Alanazi
Upper airway assessment is particularly important in the daily work of orthodontists, because of its close connection with the development of craniofacial structures and with other pathologies such as Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS). Three-dimens...
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Lucia Memè, Sabina Saccomanno, Enrico M. Strappa, Francesco Sampalmieri, Fabrizio Bambini and Gianni Gallusi
Severe positional obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (POSAS) is a common clinical respiratory disorder with an incidence of 26.7% to 74.5%. Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) combined with positional therapy is the gold standard of treatment. Howev...
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Mohammad S. Islam, Shahid Husain, Jawed Mustafa and Yuantong Gu
The main challenge of the health risk assessment of the aerosol transport and deposition to the lower airways is the high computational cost. A standard large-scale airway model needs a week to a month of computational time in a high-performance computin...
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Anna Lenart-Boron, Anna Bajor, Marek Tischner, Klaudia Kulik and Julia Kabacinska
This study provides a scientific basis to improve welfare of horses kept in stables, and to eliminate the causal agents of recurrent airway disease in horses.
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Giannicola Iannella, Giuseppe Magliulo, Antonio Greco, Marco de Vincentiis, Massimo Ralli, Antonino Maniaci, Annalisa Pace and Claudio Vicini
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) syndrome is a respiratory sleep disorder characterized by partial or complete recurrent episodes of upper airway collapse that occur during the night. The OSA manifests with a reduction (hypopnea) or complete cessation (apne...
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Fang Jung, Shang-Shing P. Chou, Shih-Hsing Yang, Jau-Chen Lin and Guey-Mei Jow
The presented paper evaluates disparities in ventilator-related parameters between a patient?s pulmonary mechanic characteristics (airway resistance, lung compliance) and ventilation characteristics (pressure-controlled, volume-controlled) with a closed ...
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