Abstract
Ishii L, Roxbury C, Godoy A, Ishman S, Ishii M. Does nasal surgery improve OSA in patients with nasal obstruction and OSA? A meta-analysis. Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg. 2015;153:326-333. (Original DOI:
In the above-mentioned systematic review, patients who underwent sinus surgery were not included. The last sentence of the introduction should read as follows: This systematic review was undertaken to evaluate whether isolated nasal surgery, including septoplasty, nasal valve reconstruction, and turbinate reduction in patients with OSA and nasal obstruction, as compared with no surgery in patients with nasal obstruction and OSA, would improve OSA as measured by the Apnea Hypopnea Index (AHI), the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS), and/or the Respiratory Disturbance Index (RDI).
Additionally, the authors would like to clarify how to read Figures 5 and 6: Super-imposed in these figures in bar graph form are the distribution of the between study standard deviation rescaled to aid visualization.
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