List of works - Scott A Sands

A dynamic model for assessing the impact of diffusing capacity on arterial oxygenation during apnea

scientific article published on 10 April 2010

A model analysis of arterial oxygen desaturation during apnea in preterm infants

scientific article

A model investigation of the impact of ventilation-perfusion mismatch on oxygenation during apnea in preterm infants

scientific article published in April 2010

A simplified method for determining phenotypic traits in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

scientific article published on 24 January 2013

Acetazolamide attenuates Hunter-Cheyne-Stokes breathing but augments the hypercapnic ventilatory response in patients with heart failure

scientific article

Acetazolamide attenuates the ventilatory response to arousal in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

scientific article published on February 2013

Acetazolamide improves loop gain but not the other physiological traits causing obstructive sleep apnoea.

scientific article published on 4 January 2012

Acoustic pharyngometry measurement of minimal cross-sectional airway area is a significant independent predictor of moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea.

scientific article

Adapting our approach to treatment-emergent central sleep apnea

scientific article published in August 2013

Airflow Shape Is Associated With the Pharyngeal Structure Causing OSA.

scientific article published on 23 June 2017

An Integrative Model of Physiological Traits Can be Used to Predict Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Response to Non Positive Airway Pressure Therapy.

scientific article published on June 2015

Automated detection of the phase III slope during inert gas washout testing

scientific article published on 15 December 2011

Baroreflex sensitivity during sleep in infants: impact of sleeping position and sleep state

scientific article

Breath-holding as a means to estimate the loop gain contribution to obstructive sleep apnoea

scientific article published on 06 July 2018

Broadband Sound Administration Improves Sleep Onset Latency in Healthy Subjects in a Model of Transient Insomnia.

scientific article published on 21 December 2017

Central sleep apnoea in congestive heart failure

scientific article published on 11 June 2015

Clinical Use of Loop Gain Measures to Determine Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Efficacy in Patients with Complex Sleep Apnea. A Pilot Study.

scientific article

Clinical consequences of altered chemoreflex control.

scientific article published on 13 May 2013

Clinical predictors of the respiratory arousal threshold in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

scientific article

Congestive heart failure and central sleep apnea

scientific article published on July 2015

Continuous positive airway pressure reduces loop gain and resolves periodic central apneas in the lamb

scientific article published on 16 July 2009

Control theory prediction of resolved Cheyne-Stokes respiration in heart failure

scientific article

Desipramine Increases Genioglossus Activity and Reduces Upper Airway Collapsibility during Non-REM Sleep in Healthy Subjects

scientific article published on 11 March 2016

Desipramine improves upper airway collapsibility and reduces OSA severity in patients with minimal muscle compensation

scientific article published on 6 October 2016

Differences in respiratory arousal threshold in Caucasian and Chinese patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

scientific article

Does my bed partner have OSA? There's an app for that!

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Does pressure affect performance? Continuous positive airway pressure for sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure.

scientific article published in January 2014

Dynamic loop gain increases upon adopting the supine body position during sleep in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

scientific article published on 20 July 2017

Effect of 4-Aminopyridine on Genioglossus Muscle Activity during Sleep in Healthy Adults

scientific article

Effect of Sleeping Position on Upper Airway Patency in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Determined by the Pharyngeal Structure Causing Collapse

scientific article

Effect of airway smooth muscle tone on airway distensibility measured by the forced oscillation technique in adults with asthma

scientific article published on 23 February 2012

Effects of Tiagabine on Slow Wave Sleep and Arousal Threshold in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

scientific article

Effects of hyperoxia and hypoxia on the physiological traits responsible for obstructive sleep apnoea

scientific article

Enhanced upper-airway muscle responsiveness is a distinct feature of overweight/obese individuals without sleep apnea

scientific article

Estimation of Pharyngeal Collapsibility During Sleep by Peak Inspiratory Airflow

scientific article

Evaluation of the role of lung volume and airway size and shape in supine-predominant obstructive sleep apnoea patients

scientific article published on 4 May 2015

Impaired blood pressure control in children with obstructive sleep apnea

scientific article published on 13 June 2013

Increased peripheral chemosensitivity via dopaminergic manipulation promotes respiratory instability in lambs

scientific article published on 7 September 2008

Influence of pharyngeal muscle activity on inspiratory negative effort dependence in the human upper airway.

scientific article

Long-term changes in blood pressure control in elementary school-aged children with sleep-disordered breathing.

scientific article

Long-term changes in heart rate variability in elementary school-aged children with sleep-disordered breathing.

scientific article

Long-term follow-up of children treated for high-grade gliomas: children's oncology group L991 final study report.

scientific article published on 21 February 2012

Loop Gain Predicts the Response to Upper Airway Surgery in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

scientific article published on 22 May 2017

Loop gain as a means to predict a positive airway pressure suppression of Cheyne-Stokes respiration in patients with heart failure.

scientific article published in November 2011

Loop gain in REM versus non-REM sleep using CPAP manipulation: A pilot study

scientific article published on 18 June 2019

Maturation of heart rate and blood pressure variability during sleep in term-born infants.

scientific article published on February 2012

Maturation of respiratory control and the propensity for breathing instability in a sheep model

scientific article published on 10 September 2009

Measuring Loop Gain via Home Sleep Testing in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

scientific article published on 30 November 2017

Mechanism underlying accelerated arterial oxygen desaturation during recurrent apnea

scientific article published on 3 June 2010

Model-based characterization of ventilatory stability using spontaneous breathing.

scientific article

Multi-ethnic Meta-analysis Identifies RAI1 as a Possible Obstructive Sleep Apnea Related Quantitative Trait Locus in Men.

scientific article

New Approaches to Diagnosing Sleep-Disordered Breathing.

scientific article

Obstructive sleep apnea in older adults is a distinctly different physiological phenotype

scientific article

Palatal prolapse as a signature of expiratory flow limitation and inspiratory palatal collapse in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.

scientific article published on 14 February 2018

Pathogenesis of central and complex sleep apnoea

scientific article

Phenotypes of patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea as confirmed by cluster analysis.

scientific article

Phenotyping Pharyngeal Pathophysiology Using Polysomnography in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

scientific article published on 12 January 2018

Physiology-Based Modeling May Predict Surgical Treatment Outcome for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

scientific article

Postnatal development of baroreflex sensitivity in infancy

scientific article published on 26 April 2010

Postnatal development of periodic breathing cycle duration in term and preterm infants

scientific article published on 01 September 2007

Postnatal maturation of breathing stability and loop gain: the role of carotid chemoreceptor development

scientific article published on 13 June 2012

Predicting epiglottic collapse in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.

scientific article

Preterm birth alters the maturation of baroreflex sensitivity in sleeping infants

scientific article published on 12 December 2011

Prevalence, Associated Clinical Features, and Impact on Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Use of a Low Respiratory Arousal Threshold Among Male United States Veterans With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

scientific article published on 15 May 2018

Quantifying the Arousal Threshold using Polysomnography in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

scientific article published on 9 November 2017

Quantifying the ventilatory control contribution to sleep apnoea using polysomnography

scientific article

Quantifying unintended exposure to high tidal volumes from breath stacking dyssynchrony in ARDS: the BREATHE criteria

scientific article published on 24 June 2016

Reply 2.

scientific article

Reply: Is the Muscle the Only Potential Target of Desipramine in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome?

scientific article

Reply: surprisingly powerful effect of continuous positive airway pressure on ventilatory instability in a pediatric patient with Cheyne-Stokes respiration

scientific article

Resonance as the Mechanism of Daytime Periodic Breathing in Patients with Heart Failure.

scientific article

Respiratory system reactance is an independent determinant of asthma control.

scientific article published on 29 August 2013

Response to a combination of oxygen and a hypnotic as treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea is predicted by a patient's therapeutic CPAP requirement

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Response to, ‘‘The unnormalized spectral indices of heart rate variability should be presented in conjunction with normalized versions of the same variables’’.

scientific article

Retropalatal and retroglossal airway compliance in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

scientific article published on 18 June 2018

Stable Breathing in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated With Increased Effort but Not Lowered Metabolic Rate.

scientific article

Structure and severity of pharyngeal obstruction determine oral appliance efficacy in sleep apnoea

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Test of the Starling resistor model in the human upper airway during sleep

scientific article

The Combination of Supplemental Oxygen and a Hypnotic Markedly Improves Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with a Mild to Moderate Upper Airway Collapsibility.

scientific article published on 09 September 2016

The Effect of Donepezil on Arousal Threshold and Apnea-Hypopnea Index. A Randomized, Double-Blind, Cross-Over Study.

scientific article published on 21 July 2016

The classical Starling resistor model often does not predict inspiratory airflow patterns in the human upper airway

scientific article

The development of autonomic cardiovascular control is altered by preterm birth.

scientific article published on 9 October 2012

The effect of prenatal maternal infection on respiratory function in mouse offspring: evidence for enhanced chemosensitivity

scientific article published on 28 May 2015

The hypoxic burden: a novel sleep apnoea severity metric and a predictor of cardiovascular mortality-Reply to 'The hypoxic burden: also known as the desaturation severity parameter'

scientific article published on 01 September 2019

The relationship between partial upper-airway obstruction and inter-breath transition period during sleep.

scientific article

Therapeutic CPAP Level Predicts Upper Airway Collapsibility in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Tube Law of the Pharyngeal Airway in Sleeping Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

scientific article

Upper airway collapsibility and patterns of flow limitation at constant end-expiratory lung volume

scientific article

Upper-Airway Collapsibility and Loop Gain Predict the Response to Oral Appliance Therapy in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

scientific article published on 15 May 2016

Ventilatory control sensitivity in patients with obstructive sleep apnea is sleep stage dependent

scientific article published on 01 May 2018

List of works by Scott A Sands

A dynamic model for assessing the impact of diffusing capacity on arterial oxygenation during apnea

A model analysis of arterial oxygen desaturation during apnea in preterm infants

A model investigation of the impact of ventilation-perfusion mismatch on oxygenation during apnea in preterm infants

A simplified method for determining phenotypic traits in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Acetazolamide attenuates Hunter-Cheyne-Stokes breathing but augments the hypercapnic ventilatory response in patients with heart failure

Acetazolamide attenuates the ventilatory response to arousal in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Acetazolamide improves loop gain but not the other physiological traits causing obstructive sleep apnoea.

Acoustic pharyngometry measurement of minimal cross-sectional airway area is a significant independent predictor of moderate-to-severe obstructive sleep apnea.

Adapting our approach to treatment-emergent central sleep apnea

Airflow Shape Is Associated With the Pharyngeal Structure Causing OSA.

An Integrative Model of Physiological Traits Can be Used to Predict Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Response to Non Positive Airway Pressure Therapy.

Automated detection of the phase III slope during inert gas washout testing

Baroreflex sensitivity during sleep in infants: impact of sleeping position and sleep state

Breath-holding as a means to estimate the loop gain contribution to obstructive sleep apnoea

Broadband Sound Administration Improves Sleep Onset Latency in Healthy Subjects in a Model of Transient Insomnia.

Central sleep apnoea in congestive heart failure

Clinical Use of Loop Gain Measures to Determine Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Efficacy in Patients with Complex Sleep Apnea. A Pilot Study.

Clinical consequences of altered chemoreflex control.

Clinical predictors of the respiratory arousal threshold in patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

Congestive heart failure and central sleep apnea

Continuous positive airway pressure reduces loop gain and resolves periodic central apneas in the lamb

Control theory prediction of resolved Cheyne-Stokes respiration in heart failure

Desipramine Increases Genioglossus Activity and Reduces Upper Airway Collapsibility during Non-REM Sleep in Healthy Subjects

Desipramine improves upper airway collapsibility and reduces OSA severity in patients with minimal muscle compensation

Differences in respiratory arousal threshold in Caucasian and Chinese patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

Does my bed partner have OSA? There's an app for that!

Does pressure affect performance? Continuous positive airway pressure for sleep-disordered breathing in heart failure.

Dynamic loop gain increases upon adopting the supine body position during sleep in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea

Effect of 4-Aminopyridine on Genioglossus Muscle Activity during Sleep in Healthy Adults

Effect of Sleeping Position on Upper Airway Patency in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Determined by the Pharyngeal Structure Causing Collapse

Effect of airway smooth muscle tone on airway distensibility measured by the forced oscillation technique in adults with asthma

Effects of Tiagabine on Slow Wave Sleep and Arousal Threshold in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Effects of hyperoxia and hypoxia on the physiological traits responsible for obstructive sleep apnoea

Enhanced upper-airway muscle responsiveness is a distinct feature of overweight/obese individuals without sleep apnea

Estimation of Pharyngeal Collapsibility During Sleep by Peak Inspiratory Airflow

Evaluation of the role of lung volume and airway size and shape in supine-predominant obstructive sleep apnoea patients

Impaired blood pressure control in children with obstructive sleep apnea

Increased peripheral chemosensitivity via dopaminergic manipulation promotes respiratory instability in lambs

Influence of pharyngeal muscle activity on inspiratory negative effort dependence in the human upper airway.

Long-term changes in blood pressure control in elementary school-aged children with sleep-disordered breathing.

Long-term changes in heart rate variability in elementary school-aged children with sleep-disordered breathing.

Long-term follow-up of children treated for high-grade gliomas: children's oncology group L991 final study report.

Loop Gain Predicts the Response to Upper Airway Surgery in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Loop gain as a means to predict a positive airway pressure suppression of Cheyne-Stokes respiration in patients with heart failure.

Loop gain in REM versus non-REM sleep using CPAP manipulation: A pilot study

Maturation of heart rate and blood pressure variability during sleep in term-born infants.

Maturation of respiratory control and the propensity for breathing instability in a sheep model

Measuring Loop Gain via Home Sleep Testing in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Mechanism underlying accelerated arterial oxygen desaturation during recurrent apnea

Model-based characterization of ventilatory stability using spontaneous breathing.

Multi-ethnic Meta-analysis Identifies RAI1 as a Possible Obstructive Sleep Apnea Related Quantitative Trait Locus in Men.

New Approaches to Diagnosing Sleep-Disordered Breathing.

Obstructive sleep apnea in older adults is a distinctly different physiological phenotype

Palatal prolapse as a signature of expiratory flow limitation and inspiratory palatal collapse in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.

Pathogenesis of central and complex sleep apnoea

Phenotypes of patients with mild to moderate obstructive sleep apnoea as confirmed by cluster analysis.

Phenotyping Pharyngeal Pathophysiology Using Polysomnography in Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Physiology-Based Modeling May Predict Surgical Treatment Outcome for Obstructive Sleep Apnea.

Postnatal development of baroreflex sensitivity in infancy

Postnatal development of periodic breathing cycle duration in term and preterm infants

Postnatal maturation of breathing stability and loop gain: the role of carotid chemoreceptor development

Predicting epiglottic collapse in patients with obstructive sleep apnoea.

Preterm birth alters the maturation of baroreflex sensitivity in sleeping infants

Prevalence, Associated Clinical Features, and Impact on Continuous Positive Airway Pressure Use of a Low Respiratory Arousal Threshold Among Male United States Veterans With Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Quantifying the Arousal Threshold using Polysomnography in Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Quantifying the ventilatory control contribution to sleep apnoea using polysomnography

Quantifying unintended exposure to high tidal volumes from breath stacking dyssynchrony in ARDS: the BREATHE criteria

Reply 2.

Reply: Is the Muscle the Only Potential Target of Desipramine in Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome?

Reply: surprisingly powerful effect of continuous positive airway pressure on ventilatory instability in a pediatric patient with Cheyne-Stokes respiration

Resonance as the Mechanism of Daytime Periodic Breathing in Patients with Heart Failure.

Respiratory system reactance is an independent determinant of asthma control.

Response to a combination of oxygen and a hypnotic as treatment for obstructive sleep apnoea is predicted by a patient's therapeutic CPAP requirement

Response to, ‘‘The unnormalized spectral indices of heart rate variability should be presented in conjunction with normalized versions of the same variables’’.

Retropalatal and retroglossal airway compliance in patients with obstructive sleep apnea

Stable Breathing in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea Is Associated With Increased Effort but Not Lowered Metabolic Rate.

Structure and severity of pharyngeal obstruction determine oral appliance efficacy in sleep apnoea

Test of the Starling resistor model in the human upper airway during sleep

The Combination of Supplemental Oxygen and a Hypnotic Markedly Improves Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Patients with a Mild to Moderate Upper Airway Collapsibility.