Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome. fifty-one consecutive patients treated by maxillofacial surgery.
The place of surgical treatment in obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) remains unclear. Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty (UPPP) has a response rate of 41% overall and only 5% when retrolingual narrowing is present. Thus, in cases with suspected hypopharyngeal collapse maxillofacial surgery has been proposed with improved results. The Stanford group has designed a step-by-step surgical procedure tailored to the specific anatomical abnormalities encountered in each patient. The goal is to avoid a full maxillomandibular advancement osteotomy (MMO), at least in a subgroup of patients, beginning with a limited mandibular osteotomy (with or without hyoid myotomy and hyothyroidopexy and with or without UPPP) (phase 1 surgery). In this procedure MMO is performed as the second or third step (phase 2 surgery). The present study reports on our prospective experience with 51 consecutive patients (64 surgical procedures) treated by the step-by-step maxillofacial surgery previously described by the Stanford team. Only 2 of the 53 patients initially treated were lost for follow-up. Surgery was considered a success if the postoperative apnea and hypopnea index (AHI) was less than 15/h with at least a 50% reduction. Forty-four patients had phase 1 surgery. The success rate was 22.7% (10 of 44). The mean AHI was unchanged with a trend for reduction in the apnea index. Twenty patients had maxillomandibular advancement surgery (phase 2) (13 failures of phase 1, 7 patients primarily because of facioskeletal deformities). The AHI decreased from 59 +/- 29/h to 11 +/- 9/h after phase 2. Of the patients 75% (15 of 20) were considered to have had a successful outcome. In conclusion, phase 1 does not seem effective in most patients with OSAS. The results of phase 2 surgery are successful in young patients with severe OSAS even if the surgical technique is more aggressive.
Department of Respiratory Medicine and Sleep Laboratory, PRETA Laboratory TIMC UMR CNRS 5525, University Hospital, University Hospital, Grenoble, France.
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D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006928:Hyoid Bone / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D019647:Oral Surgical Procedures; D010027:Osteotomy / Q000379:methods; D017286:Polysomnography; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome