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Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Simultaneous sleep study and nasoendoscopic investigation in a patient with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome refractory to continuous positive airway pressure: a case report | Journal of Medical Case Reports BioMed Zentral Case report Open Access Simultaneous sleep study and nasoendoscopic investigation in a patient with obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome refractory to continuous positive airway pressure a case report Claudia Chaves Loureiro 1 Marta Drummond2 Adriana Magalhães2 Elisabete SantaClara2 Miguel Gonẹalves2 and João Carlos Winck2 Addresses Department of Pulmonology University Hospital of Coimbra Coimbra Portugal and 2Department of Pulmonology São João do Porto Hospital Porto Portugal E-mail Claudia Chaves Loureiro - cl_loureiro@ Marta Drummond - Adriana Magalhães - pneumologja@ Elisabete SantaClara - pneumologia@ Miguel Goncalves - pneumologia@ João Carlos Winck - jwinck@ Corresponding author Published 2 December 2009 Received 12 November 2009 Journal of Medical Case Reports 2009 3 9315 doi I752-I947-3-93I5 Accepted 2 December 2009 This article is available from http content 3 I 93I5 2009 Loureiro et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Introduction The standard treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome is nasal continuous positive airway pressure. In most cases the obstruction is located at the oropharyngeal level and nasal continuous positive airway pressure is usually effective. In cases of non-response to nasal continuous positive airway pressure other treatments like mandibular advancement devices or upper airway surgery especially bi-maxillary advancement may also be considered. Case presentation We report the case of a 38-year-old Caucasian man with severe obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome initially .