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Abstract:
A comprehensive examination and therapy of 90 snoring and apnea patients treated in an ENT clinic of the Russian State Medical University have established similar features of the diseases: pathological mechanisms, clinical manifestations, stages, outcome. This enables differential diagnosis and change of the syndromal diagnosis "pathological snoring" for a nosological one -- chronic ronchopathy. The term "ronchopathy" originates from a Greek word "ronhus"-- snoring; the term "chronic" means development of the disease due to chronic pathology of the upper airways and progression of a clinical symptom -- snoring.
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