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Systematic review: the influence of nasal obstruction on sleep apnea
Revisão sistemática: influência da obstrução nasal na apneia do sono
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Debora Petrungaro Migueisa, Luiz Claudio Santos Thulera,b, Lucas Neves de Andrade Lemesc, Chirlene Santos Souza Moreiraa, Lucia Joffilyd, Maria Helena de Araujo-Meloa,d,
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Introduction

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a common disorder that can lead to cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, as well as to metabolic, neurological, and behavioral consequences. It is currently believed that nasal obstruction compromises the quality of sleep when it results in breathing disorders and fragmentation of sleep. However, recent studies have failed to objectively associate sleep quality and nasal obstruction.

Objective

The aim of this systematic review is to evaluate the influence of nasal obstruction on OSAS and polysomnographic indices associated with respiratory events.

Methods

Eleven original articles published from 2003 to 2013 were selected, which addressed surgical and non-surgical treatment for nasal obstruction, performing polysomnography type 1 before and after the intervention.

Results/conclusions

In most trials, nasal obstruction was not related to the apnea–hypopnea index (AHI), indicating no improvement in OSAS with reduction in nasal resistance. However, few researchers evaluated other polysomnography indices, such as the arousal index and rapid eye movement (REM) sleep percentage. These could change with nasal obstruction, since it is possible that the nasal obstruction does not completely block the upper airways, but can increase negative intrathoracic pressure, leading to sleep fragmentation.

Keywords:
Nasal obstruction
Obstructive sleep apnea
Sleep fragmentation
Polysomnography
Treatment outcome
Resumo
Introdução

A síndrome da apneia obstrutiva do sono (SAOS) é um distúrbio muito prevalente que pode ocasionar morbi-mortalidade cardiovascular, além de consequências metabólicas, neurológicas e comportamentais. Atualmente, acredita-se que a obstrução nasal comprometa a qualidade do sono, devido a distúrbios respiratórios e fragmentação do sono. Entretanto, até o momento estudos recentes não conseguem relacionar objetivamente qualidade do sono e obstrução nasal.

Objetivo

O objetivo principal desta revisão sistemática é avaliar a influência da obstrução nasal na SAOS e em índices polissonográficos associados a eventos respiratórios.

Método

Foram selecionados um total de 11 artigos originais de 2003 a 2013 com tratamentos cirúrgicos e não cirúrgicos da obstrução nasal, realizando a polissonografia do tipo 1 antes e após a intervenção.

Resultados/conclusões

Na maioria dos ensaios, a obstrução nasal não se relacionou ao índice de apneia-hipopneia, indicando ausência de melhora da SAOS com a redução da resistência nasal. Entretanto, poucos pesquisadores avaliaram índices polissonográficos como o índice de despertares e o percentual do sono REM (movimento rápido dos olhos) que poderiam vir alterados, uma vez que a obstrução nasal possivelmente não obstrui completamente a via aérea superior, mas aumenta a pressão negativa intratorácica, levando à fragmentação do sono.

Palavras-chave:
Obstrução nasal
Apneia obstrutiva do sono
Fragmentação do sono
Polissonografia
Resultado do tratamento
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Introduction

Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) is a very prevalent disorder, which may result in cardiovascular morbidity and mortality, as well as metabolic, neurological, and behavioral consequences. In the Brazilian population, this syndrome is a public health problem, affecting 32.8% of the population.1 OSAS is an anatomical and functional abnormality resulting from partial or total neuromuscular collapse of the upper airways (UA) during sleep, mainly with negative pressures during inspiration. This obstruction causes sleep fragmentation and intermittent hypoxia. The main areas of obstruction are the nose, palate, and tongue, but the obstruction may be multifactorial.2 Currently, it is believed that nasal obstruction impairs the quality of sleep in respiratory disorders, and also adversely affects the adoption and adherence to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), the gold standard for OSAS treatment.3 However, recent studies have failed to objectively associate the quality of sleep with nasal obstruction.4

According to the European Position Paper on Rhinosinusitis and Nasal Polyps (EPOS 2012), nasal obstruction can be caused by several types of chronic (CRS) or acute rhinosinusitis.5 Some studies suggest that sleep complaints in patients with CRS are common and can even affect their quality of life, but there is little information about this association.6 The last review on the subject, carried out in 2013 by Meen et al., showed that drug and surgical nasal interventions did not improve the apnea–hypopnea index (AHI), or OSAS, but improved subjective symptoms of the disorder, such as excessive daytime sleepiness and quality of life.4 This and other more recent systematic reviews, however, did not evaluate the arousal index, RERA (respiratory effort-related arousals), and the sleep-disordered breathing index.

The main objective of this systematic review was to evaluate the influence of nasal obstruction on OSAS and other polysomnography indices associated with respiratory events, over the last decade.

Methods

Articles selected were prospective studies, consisting of controlled clinical trials, and cohort studies, in which patients underwent type 1 polysomnography (supervised by the technician in the sleep laboratory), performed as a complete overnight study before and after conservative or surgical interventions to improve nasal breathing during sleep. Two reviewers selected the relevant literature published between 2003 and 2013 from MEDLINE (BIREME and PubMed), in English or Portuguese languages, on the association between nasal obstruction and OSAS. Related articles and references were also included in this review. Only original studies with surgical and non-surgical treatment of nasal obstruction that performed type 1 polysomnography before and after the intervention were selected. The following were excluded: letters to the Editor, case series (with less than ten patients), review articles, basic research studies, and studies without intervention or without type 1 polysomnography performed throughout the entire night. Studies that included patients with neuropathy, heart disease, age <18 years, and multilevel surgery or other non-nasal surgeries at the same time were also excluded.

The assessed interventions were: use of medications (nasal decongestants and topical corticosteroids), nasal dilators, and nasal surgeries (rhinoplasty, septoplasty with or without turbinectomy, functional endoscopic sinus surgery). In this systematic review, treatment success was evaluated according to subjective improvement in nasal obstruction and/or improvement in nasal resistance. Additionally, polysomnography indices related to respiratory events and pre and post-intervention EEG indices were compared to assess the influence of nasal obstruction on OSAS.

The search in PubMed was carried out in August 2014 using the terms “Nasal Obstruction” [MeSH] AND “Sleep Apnea, Obstructive” [MeSH], resulting in 140 articles. In the Virtual Health Library, using the terms “nasal obstruction and Obstructive Sleep Apnea”, the authors obtained 613 articles. After a review of titles and abstracts, the first reviewer obtained 21 articles from PubMed and 33 from BIREME. After excluding articles that were repeated in both sources, 52 studies remained. After reviewing the titles and abstracts, the second reviewer selected 21 articles from PubMed and 42 from BIREME. After eliminating the repeated articles, 46 remained.

Among the articles selected by both reviewers, 25 were repeated, and after assessing both the titles and abstracts, 73 articles remained to be read in full and finally selected. In addition to these, other articles were also included through manual search of the evaluated references (Fig. 1).

Figure 1.

Literature review process. The articles were obtained by using the keywords in BIREME and PubMed. Each reviewer initially assessed 753 articles. After exclusion of articles repeated between sources, titles, and abstracts were evaluated together, which resulted in 73 articles that were assessed in full. There were 25 articles in common and 13 were evaluated according to the STROBE criteria. In addition to these, seven articles were included through manual search of the analyzed references.

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The level of significance was set at 5% (α=0.05) to reject the null hypothesis. The values are shown with the respective 95% confidence intervals (95% CI), which expresses with 95% certainty the range of values within which the true value is found in the population.7 Median age and body mass index (BMI) were calculated as a central tendency measure. Additionally, all selected articles met the criteria established by Strengthening the Reporting of Observational Studies in Epidemiology (STROBE) applied to cohort studies.8

Results

After selecting the full articles and evaluating the methodology, p-value, confidence interval, absence of bias, and the presence of all criteria established by the STROBE checklist, 11 articles were selected for this systematic review. Patients with nasal obstruction underwent clinical and surgical interventions to improve nasal breathing, comparing pre- and postoperative polysomnography indices. Excessive daytime sleepiness was assessed by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS)9 and clinical improvement.

The following polysomnographic parameters were evaluated: AHI, sleep-disordered breathing index (SDBI), presence of desaturation and snoring, arousal index, sleep architecture, REM (rapid eye movement) sleep, and slow-wave sleep (previously known as N3+N4 sleep stage) according to the criteria of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AAMS) Manual.10

A total of 297 patients were evaluated, with a median age of 46 years and a mean BMI of 27.9kg/m2.

Of the three trials with drug treatment (Table 1), all patients obtained a reduction in nasal resistance and improved subjective sleep quality, without changing the snoring. After conservative treatment, the AHI and the desaturation index only showed a significant reduction in study by Kiely et al. 11 Two trials using decongestants12,13 demonstrated no improvement in excessive daytime sleepiness according to the Epworth Sleepiness Scale (ESS). In two studies with clinical interventions,11,12 there was a significant increase in slow-wave sleep, and only Lean et al.12 found a lower arousal index, higher sleep efficiency, and increased percentage of REM sleep and slow-wave sleep (Table 2).

Table 1.

Total number of studies with clinical and surgical intervention.

Authors and year of publication  Follow-up period  Study design  Patients (nMales (%)  Mean age  Mean BMI  Nasal intervention  AMMS manual 
Kiely et al.11 2004  2 months  Clinical trial  23  82.6  46  27.9  Fluticasone spray 100mcg 2×/day for a month and placebo for a month. Crossover design.  1999 
Lean et al.12 2005  2 PSG with a one-day interval between them  Clinical trial  10  90  46.5  27  Nasal decongestant 1h before lights-out and nasal dilator. Crossover design.  1999 
Clarenbach et al.13 2008  3 weeks  Clinical trial  12  83.3  49.1  30.7  Patients with EDS, OSAS, and nasal complaints in two randomized groups: one with topical xylometazoline and another with placebo for seven days. Crossover design.  1992 
Nakata et al.14 2005  PSG pre and post-op  Clinical trial  12  100  54.2  27  Inferior turbinectomy and septoplasty. Sinusotomy in one patient. CPAP use pre- and postoperatively.  1999 
Virkkula et al.15 2006  2–6 months  Prospective study  40  100  44.2  27.9  Septoplasty with (2) or without partial inferior turbinectomy and rhinoseptoplasty (two patients).  1999 
Koutsourelakis et al.16 2008  PSG pre and post-op  Clinical trial  49  75.5  38.3  30.15  27 septoplasties with (18) or without partial inferior turbinectomy, 22 sham surgeries.  1999 
Li et al.17 2008  3 months  Clinical trial  51  98  39  26  Septoplasty and sinusectomy.  1999 
Tosun et al.18 2009  3 months  Clinical trial  27  81.5  40.37  23.87  FESS in patients with sinonasal polyposis (obstruction ≥50% of each nasal passage).  1999 
Bican et al.19 2010  4 months  Prospective study  20  100  47.5  31  Rhinoseptoplasty, with emphasis on the nasal valve, improvement and CPAP pre and post-op.  1999 
Choi et al.20 2011  3 months  Prospective study  22  100  41.3  25.5  After the use of topical steroids without nasal obstruction improvement, they were submitted to nasal surgery (5 endoscopic, 17 septoplasties with turbinectomy).  2007 
Sufioğlu et al.21 2012  3 months  Prospective study  31  83.9  53  30.3  Surgeries: (1) three septoplasties, (2) two rhinoseptoplasties, (3) eighteen septoplasties and turbinectomies, (4) four sinusectomies, septoplasties and turbinectomies (5) four bilateral inferior turbinectomies.  2007 

EDS, excessive daytime sleepiness; OSAS, obstructive sleep apnea syndrome; Pre-op, pre-operatively; Post-op, post-operatively; FESS, functional endoscopic sinus surgery; PSG, polysomnography; CPAP, continuous positive airway pressure.

Table 2.

Changes with clinical treatment.

Authors and year  Nasal resistance  Snoring after the intervention  Clinical improvement  Polysomnography after intervention  AHI and SDBI  Arousal index 
Kiely et al. 2004Reductiona with active treatment.No reduction.Improved daytime alert by the daily record and quality of sleep.Limited effect in the treatment of OSAS.  AHI and desaturation index decreaseda with fluticasone.Not reported.
Increasea of SWS. 
Lean et al. 2005Reductiona with active treatment.Not reported.Reductiona of mouth breathing during sleep and partial improvement of sleep quality.  Improvementa of sleep efficiency.  No reduction.Reductiona with active treatment.
No reduction in ESS.  Increasea in REM and SWS. 
Clarenbach et al. 2008  Reductiona with active treatment.  No reduction.  No reduction in ESS.  No alteration in SWS or REM.  No reduction.  No reduction. 

AHI, apnea and hypopnea index; SDBI, sleep-disordered breathing index; ESS, Epworth Sleepiness Scale; SWS, slow-wave sleep; CPAP, continuous positive airway pressure; desaturation index, number of desaturations ≥4% per hour of sleep.

a

Statistically significant difference.

Among the eight studies with surgical intervention14–21 (Table 1), all achieved significant reduction in nasal resistance. Only one trial with surgical intervention15 did not achieve significant change in the ESS, while the others showed a reduction in excessive daytime sleepiness. However, after the intervention, only two that used CPAP (Bican et al. 19 and Sufioğlu et al. 21) showed significant reduction in AHI and CPAP pressure. After surgery and the use of CPAP, Nakata et al.14 showed decrease in CPAP pressure, without reduction in the AHI.

Four studies17,18,20,21 showed a reduction of snoring, and Sufioğlu et al.21 reported that this improvement was subjective. Only two studies14,19 showed increase in the minimum nocturnal oxygen saturation postoperatively. In addition, Bican et al.19 and Choi et al.20 showed an increase in total sleep time and increase in the percentage of REM sleep. Only one study21 showed an increase in N3+N4 sleep (slow-wave sleep). No study with surgical intervention assessed or demonstrated any changes in the arousal index (Table 3).

Table 3.

Changes with surgical treatment.

Authors and year  Nasal resistance  Snoring after intervention  Clinical improvement  Polysomnography after intervention  Arousal index  AHI and SDBI 
Nakata S 2005ReductionaNot reported.Reductiona in ESS.  CPAP pressure reduction in 5 patients.  Not reported.Did not change AHI with CPAP pre and post-op.
Better adaptation to CPAP.  Increasea in the minimum oxygen saturation. 
Virkkula P 2006  Reductiona  No reductionaNo improvement in nocturnal breathing and in ESS post-op.  No reduction in the desaturation index, arousals and duration of snoring in individuals with normal cephalometry or not.  No change.  Did not change AHI in individuals with normal cephalometry or not. 
Koutsourel akis I 2008  Reductiona  Not reported.  Reductiona in the ESS after nasal surgery, different from placebo.  Not informed  Not reported.  Did not change the AHI with nasal surgery or placebo. 
Li HY 2008ReductionaSnoring decreaseda.Improveda nasal breathing at the visual analog scale of nasal obstruction in 98% of patients.  No changes in the minimum oxygen saturation three months post-op.Not reported.No change.
Subjectivea sleep improvement. 
Reductiona in ESS. 
Tosun F 2009ReductionaSnoring decreaseda in all patients and disappeared completely in 9 of the 27.Reductiona in ESS.Improveda quality of sleep.  No change.No change.
No changes in the minimum oxygen saturation in post-op. 
Bican A 2010ReductionaNot reportedReductiona in ESS in post-op of patients with CPAP.Increasea in REM.  Not reported.AHI decreaseda
Increasea in N1, N2 and total sleep time, in the post-op.  Reductiona in pressure to CPAP in the post-op.
No difference in N3+N4 sleep. 
Improveda subjective comfort of nasal flow.  Increasea in the minimum oxygen saturation. 
Choi JH 2011ReductionaSnoring decreaseda.Reductiona in ESS.Increasea in REM.  No change.Did not change the AHI or the minimum oxygen saturation, with isolated nasal surgery.
Increasea in total sleep time and sleep efficiency. 
Sufioğlu M 2012ReductionaSubjective improvementa only of snoring.Reductiona in ESS.  Increasea in N3+N4.Not reported.Did not change the AHI. The AHI decreased to less than 5/h in 5 patients, which means the cure of OSAS.
Increasea in CPAP tolerance. 
Improvementa of subjective complaints of obstruction, snoring, apnea and daytime sleepiness.  Reduction of pressure of CPAP in the post-op.  Reduction* of total duration of apneas and hypopneas. 

AHI, apnea and hypopnea index; SDBI, sleep-disordered breathing index; ESS, Epworth Sleepiness Scale; TST, total sleep time; N3+N4, slow-wave sleep; CPAP, continuous positive airway pressure.

a

Statistically significant difference (p<0.05).

Discussion

Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB), according to the Third International Classification of Sleep Disorders (ICSD-3),22 is characterized by ventilation abnormalities during sleep and, sometimes may be present during wakefulness. It comprises four categories: OSAS, central sleep apnea, sleep-related hypoventilation/hypoxemia, and upper-airway resistance syndrome (UARS); individuals can display more than one condition. This review shows a series of 297 cases, in which patients with different causes of nasal obstruction were submitted to clinical and surgical interventions, and were evaluated for polysomnography indices and clinical improvement.

OSAS was the best-studied and most accepted disorder in the medical community. It is characterized by partial or total obstruction of the upper airways, called hypopnea and apnea, with episodic drops in oxyhemoglobin saturation and recurrent awakenings.10 In addition to these events, respiratory effort-related arousals (RERA) may occur, without apnea or hypopnea, maintaining oxyhemoglobin levels stable during sleep. These awakenings have consequences, such as sleep fragmentation and excessive daytime sleepiness, and are related to another SDB known as UARS.23,24 Only Sufioğlu et al.21 assessed sleep fragmentation, demonstrating the effects on sleep architecture, showing the scarcity of studies about this aspect.

Nasal medications did not improve snoring. Two studies12,13 used vasoconstrictors for a short period, but both only reduced nasal resistance and improved subjective aspects of sleep. Possibly, the chronic use of vasoconstrictors might not have the same effect, as it could result in drug-induced rhinitis.

All studies with surgical intervention14–21 decreased nasal resistance, with most of them resulting in the reduction of snoring and excessive daytime sleepiness, although they did not reduce AHI. Two studies19,21 showed significant reduction in AHI. Sufioğlu et al.21 demonstrated the increase in the slow-wave sleep percentage. Two trials19,20 showed an increase in total sleep time and percentage of REM sleep. In some studies, the sleep architecture was not reported, indicating the need for better study of this aspect with significant behavioral and neurological effects. No surgical intervention evaluated or showed any change in the arousal index. An increase of this index suggests airflow limitation that causes micro-arousals, with consequent sleep fragmentation and sometimes, intermittent hypoxia. This not only would result in metabolic disorders, but also irritability, anxiety, difficulty in consolidating memory, and reduced concentration and attention, which could impair the individual's productivity.23,24

Three studies that used CPAP14,19,21 showed that it was possible to reduce the pressure necessary for effective use following intervention, which improved treatment adherence. Only Nakata et al.14 and Bican et al.19 showed increase in the minimum oxygen saturation after surgery, which can result in metabolic and neurological benefits to the individual.

This review showed that many authors consider the AHI to be very important, without assessing the arousal index and sleep architecture. This may result in the underdiagnosis of the UARS, impairing the understanding of excessive sleepiness associated with it, which could deprive patients of a treatment that could bring them benefits.

Only two studies, carried out in 2011 and 2012, used the 2007 AAMS Manual, indicating that the others did not evaluate RERA and the SDBI, the sum of the number of apneas, hypopneas, and RERA divided by total sleep time. In the last task force to prepare the 2012 AAMS Manual, RERA measurement became mandatory, an airflow limitation with the formation of a plateau in the nasal cannula, lasting 10s, associated with awakening. In the 2007 AAMS Manual, measuring the number of RERA was optional, despite the relevance of UARS and SDBI.

Recently, arousals have been studied more frequently. Terzano et al.25 described arousals with a cyclic alternating pattern (CAP) during non-REM (NREM) sleep in patients with normal AHI, but high rate of respiratory disorders. They had UARS with fatigue and daytime sleepiness, despite normal AHI, reinforcing the association between the number of CAP, indicative of NREM sleep fragmentation, with the Epworth Sleepiness Scale. However, the CAP has not been established as a criterion in the AMMS-2012, indicating the need for further studies to reinforce its clinical significance. Finally, the inclusion of CAP has altered some paradigms.

Arousal is currently defined as frequencies greater than 16Hz (no zones), preceded by 10s of sleep, lasting more than 3s, while CAP lasts longer than 2s. The inclusion, for instance, of the CAP in AAMS Manual can increase the sensitivity of the polysomnography study, allowing the diagnosis, treatment, and monitoring of previously neglected disorders. The standard polysomnographic report of most studies in this review does not allow the quantification of aspects with significant clinical repercussions.

The articles by Choi et al.20 and Sufioğlu et al.21 from 2011 and 2012, respectively, used the AMMS-2007 Manual, commenting on sleep fragmentation and arousal index.

Friedman et al.,26 showed that patients with moderate to severe OSAS who underwent nasal reconstruction, postoperatively exhibited worse objective sleep study findings. Possibly, this was due to an existing neuromuscular change in the upper airway that was not corrected through an intervention exclusively performed at the nasal level. Indeed, during muscle relaxation, patients with less fragmented sleep can have more REM sleep, as well as more apnea and hypopnea. However, this paradoxical effect of nasal surgery on the SDBI requires further study.

One factor that complicates the definition of therapeutic success is the lack of parameters for OSAS improvement. One of the most commonly used criterion for intervention success is an improvement of SDBI to ≤50% of the preoperative value, with a preoperative value of <20 events per hour.27 However, there are criticisms regarding its use for severe OSAS or in patients with pre-intervention SDBI values close to 20 events per hour. Other success criteria were created, such as a reduction in the SDBI to less than five events per hour, improvement in oxygen saturation to levels >90%, and significant reduction of events,28 but these do not adequately assess the improvement of patients with severe OSAS. Thus, a consensus regarding this definition is needed.

Another aspect observed during the selection of articles was the increasing number of studies performed with portable polysomnography without the presence of a technician (polysomnography type 2). These articles were excluded from this review. The AMMS-2012 Manual10 and ICSD-322 consider portable polysomnography a useful tool in clinical practice, but the possible loss of the quality of the examination due to lack of supervision by a technician should be even better established by research.

Conclusion

We observed a large number of clinical trials that used septal deviation and allergic rhinitis as factors in nasal obstruction during the last ten years. Only one study considered nasal polyposis (NP) as a cause of obstruction. Persistent allergic rhinitis is an important factor of nasal obstruction, but its intensity may vary. NP has more objective tools for assessing the severity of the obstruction.

Only four studies recorded a significant improvement in snoring; three studies showed a reduction in CPAP pressure and seven reported subjective sleep improvement. Thus, the nasal role on the physiopathology of OSAS remains imprecise. Reduction in excessive daytime sleepiness was observed in some studies, measured by the Epworth Sleepiness Scale.

In most trials, nasal obstruction was not associated with AHI, indicating no improvement in OSAS with nasal resistance reduction. In contrast, few researchers evaluated polysomnography indices, such as the arousal index and percentage of REM sleep, which could be altered, as nasal obstruction sometimes does not cause complete upper airway obstruction, but increases the negative intrathoracic pressure, leading to sleep fragmentation. Thus, more studies are required on the influence of nasal obstruction on polysomnography.

Conflicts of interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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Please cite this article as: Migueis DP, Thuler LCS, de Andrade Lemes LN, Moreira CSS, Joffily L, de Araujo-Melo MH. Systematic review: the influence of nasal obstruction on sleep apnea. Braz J Otorhinolaryngol. 2016;82:223–31.

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