title: [Chronic ronchopathy -- a nosological entity of pathological realization of upper airways obstruction].
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.
authors.forename: V T
authors.initials: VT
authors.lastname: Pal'chun
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Grinchuk
authors.forename: L N
authors.initials: LN
authors.lastname: Elizarova
mesh_terms: D000886:Anthropometry; D002908:Chronic Disease; D006801:Humans; D008513:Medicine in Literature; D010845:Obesity Hypoventilation Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology; D010100:Oxygen / Q000378:metabolism; D025363:Rhinomanometry; D020181:Sleep Apnea, Obstructive / Q000150:complications*; D012913:Snoring / Q000209:etiology* / Q000503:physiopathology*
chemical_list: D010100:Oxygen