Article
Journey towards a personalised medicine approach for OSA: Can a similar approach to adult OSA be applied to paediatric OSA?
Paediatric respiratory reviews - 1 Nov 2020
Siriwardhana Leon S, Nixon Gillian M, Horne Rosemary S C, Edwards Bradley A
Abstract excerpt
The concept of personalised medicine is likely to revolutionise the treatment of adult obstructive sleep apnoea as a result of recent advances in the understanding of disease heterogeneity by identifying clinical phenotypes, pathophysiological endotypes, biomarkers and treatable traits. Children with the condition show a similar level of heterogeneity and paediatric obstructive sleep apnoea would also benefit...
Topics
- Adenoidectomy
- Adenoids
- Arousal
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Humans
- Hypertrophy
- Palatine Tonsil
- Pharynx
- Phenotype
- Precision Medicine
- Pulmonary Ventilation
