Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Advances in Clinical Diagnosis and Management
A special issue of Journal of Clinical Medicine (ISSN 2077-0383). This special issue belongs to the section "Respiratory Medicine".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 July 2026
Special Issue Editor
2. Department of Respiratory Diseases, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Interests: obstructive sleep apnea; sleep disorder breathing; central apnea; precision medicine
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Dear Colleagues,
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is a heterogeneous condition with multiple clinical presentations. Current diagnostic metrics for OSA rely predominantly on frequency-based indices, particularly the apnea–hypopnea index (AHI). In recent years, various endotypes (underlying pathophysiological mechanisms) and phenotypes (observable clinical presentations) have been described, revealing different patterns of disease severity that extend beyond the AHI alone.
Recent advances in signal processing of data from sleep studies, combined with a better understanding of the clinical presentation of OSA across the lifespan, provide valuable information for determining which patients are most likely to benefit from continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) therapy, mandibular advancement devices, pharmacological treatments, surgery, or combination therapies beyond CPAP alone.
This topic/collection aims to review recent updates in the clinical diagnosis and management of OSA, with special interest in novel approaches to identifying and characterizing OSA patients beyond the AHI. We welcome submissions of original research articles and reviews on this topic.
Dr. Gonzalo Labarca
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- obstructive sleep apnea
- sleep disorder breathing
- central apnea
- apnea–hypopnea index
- precision medicine
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