Exploring the Role of Drug-Induced Sleep Endoscopy in Optimizing Upper Airway Stimulation Therapy for Non-Responders
The take-home point: Dr. Nord considers DISE with the stimulator on a good tool for the Inspire non-responder who tolerates the device, once awake endoscopy and reprogramming have failed. Copper's group gives a clear way to run it: settings first, then add-on therapy targeted to whatever stays obstructed. The honest limit stays. The headline, about eighteen events an hour lower in the eighteen patients followed, is a real fall. But this uncontrolled series can't show that the DISE itself caused it, rather than the treatments that followed, time, or regression to the mean. The paper doesn't…
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