Evert Hamans

TL;DR: Evidence supports the use of mandibular advancement devices in mild to moderate OSAS and Maxillomandibular osteotomy seems to be as efficient as continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) in patients who refuse conservative treatment.

TL;DR: The absence of palatal CCC during DISE may predict therapeutic success with implanted UAS therapy, and DISE can be recommended as a patient selection tool for implantation of a UAS system to treat OSA.

TL;DR: A proposal of the DISE procedure standardization has been achieved with a general agreement concerning the terminology, indications, contraindications, required preliminary examinations, setting, technical equipment required, staffing, local anesthesia and nasal decongestion, patient positioning, basis and special diagnostic maneuvers, and the applied sedation drugs and observation windows.

TL;DR: Upper airway collapse patterns during drug‐induced sleep endoscopy (DISE) in a large cohort of patients with sleep‐disordered breathing and to assess associations with anthropometric and polysomnographic parameters are described.

TL;DR: An enlarged group of European experts in the field of sleep breathing disorders (SBD), including the most of the first DISE EPP main authors, has decided to publish an update of the European position paper on DISE, in order to include new evidence and to find a common language useful for reporting the findings of this endoscopic evaluation in adult population affected by SBD.