Nasal surgery improves symptoms of obstructive sleep apnoea, Finds study

Nasal surgery can effectively improve nose and sleep symptoms in patients with simple snoring or with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), suggests a study recently published in the American Journal of Otolaryngology.
Jun Wu and colleagues from the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery, Beijing Tongren Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, People's Republic of China aimed to evaluate the clinical efficacy of nasal surgery in the treatment of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) by comparing the improvement of subjective symptoms and objective metrics before surgery and after 6 months of surgery.
Patients with the main complaint of nasal congestion combined with habitual snoring who were hospitalized and treated were selected. Patients underwent subjective symptom tests and objective indicator monitoring both before surgery and 6 months after surgery. Comparisons between groups were performed using the independent samples t-test.
The following observations were observed-
- Subjective scale evaluations demonstrated that nasal congestion, daytime sleepiness, snoring, nose-related symptoms, and sleep symptoms in patients with simple snoring or with obstructive sleep apnoea were improved after nasal surgery.
Hence, the authors concluded that nasal surgery can effectively improve nose and sleep symptoms in patients with simple snoring or with obstructive sleep apnoea. It can significantly reduce the nasal resistance and increase the ventilation volume.
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