TY - JOUR T1 - Predicting outcome of nasal surgery in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea JF - European Respiratory Journal JO - Eur Respir J SP - 246 LP - 246 DO - 10.1183/09031936.00012108 VL - 32 IS - 1 AU - M. Kohler AU - K. E. Bloch Y1 - 2008/07/01 UR - http://erj.ersjournals.com/content/32/1/246.1.abstract N2 - To the Editors: In a recent randomised sham-surgery-controlled trial, Koutsourelakis et al. 1 demonstrated that nasal surgery for fixed nasal obstruction did not improve, or even worsened, sleep-disordered breathing in a majority of 27 patients with obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) syndrome. Based on previous studies showing that the oral breathing route predisposes to OSA 2, Koutsourelakis et al. 1 compared the proportion of nasal breathing during sleep … ER -