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Obstructive sleep apnea in amyloidosis treated with nasal continuous positive airway pressure
B A Lesser1, K V Leeper, W Conway
1Department of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI 48202.
Archives of Internal Medicine
|October 1, 1988
Abstract:
Obstructive sleep apnea can occur in patients with a variety of upper airway anatomic abnormalities including macroglossia. We present a case of macroglossia secondary to amyloidosis causing obstructive sleep apnea that was successfully treated with low pressures of nasal continuous positive airway pressure (5 cm of water).