Preface

Contributors

Part I. The Normal Upper Airway

1. Upper Airway Structure During Development

Seung Hoon Lee

2. Functional Aspects and Upper Airway Control During Wakefulness and Sleep

Neriel Katz, Tamar Etzioni and Giora Pillar

3. Lymphadenoid Tissues in the Upper Airway

Jinkwan Kim and David Gozal

4. The Nasal Airway

Fuad M. Baroody

Part II. Sleep During Development

5. Neural Mechanisms of Sleep and Circadian Rhythms

Edgar Garcia-Rill

6. EEG and Sleep During Development

Raffaele Ferri, Luana Novelli, and Oliviero Bruni

7. Autonomic Cardiovascular Regulation during Sleep

Anna Kourbasis, Lisa M. Walter, Stephanie R. Yiallourou, and Rosemary S. C. Horne

8. Arousal: Ontology, Functional Anatomy, Methodology, and Consequences

Eliot S. Katz

9. Metabolic and Hormonal Regulation during Sleep

Riva Tauman

10. Chemoreceptors, Breathing, and Sleep

John L. Carroll, Supriya K. Jambhekar, and David F. Donnelly

11. Pathophysiology of Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Putting it All Together

Eliot S. Katz

Part III. Diagnostic Assessment of Sleep and Breathing in Children

12. Clinical Evaluation of the Pediatric Patient

Hari P. R. Bandla

13. Actigraphy

Hawley E. Montgomery-Downs and Lisa J. Meltzer

14. Abbreviated/Portable Recordings

Luigi Ferini-Strambi

15. Overnight Sleep Study and MSLT

Jyoti Krishna

16. Upper Airway Imaging in Children with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome

Raanan Arens and Sanghun Sin

17. The "Omics" Future: Genomics, Transcriptomics, and Proteomics

Sina A. Gharib

18. Pediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing: Criteria and Spectrum of Disease

Karen Spruyt

Part IV. SDB in Children

19. Apnea of Prematurity

Christian F. Poets

20. Epidemiologic Aspects of Pediatric OSA around the World

Athanasios Kaditis

21. Obesity and Sleep

Edward O. Bixler, Alexandros N. Vgontzas, Marina Tsaoussoglou, and Susan L. Calhoun

22. Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with Down Syndrome

Dennis Rosen

23. Children with Neuromuscular Disorders

Aviv D. Goldbart

24. Sleep Problems in Children with Sickle Cell Disease

Umakanth Khatwa, Alia Bazzy-Asaad, and Sanjeev V. Kothare

25. Children with Craniofacial Syndromes

Wendy Estrellado-Cruz and Robert C. Beckerman

26. Epilepsy, Headache, and Sleep Disordered Breathing

Martina Vendrame and Sanjeev V. Kothare

27. Sleep and Breathing in Cystic Fibrosis

Amanda J. Piper

28. Asthma and Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Leila Kheirandish-Gozal

29. Central Hypoventilation Syndromes

Iris A. Perez, Thomas G. Keens, and Sally L. Davidson Ward

30. Healthcare Utilization and Pediatric Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Ariel Tarasiuk and Haim Reuveni

31. Gastroesophageal Reflux and Sleep Disordered Breathing

Hari P. R. Bandla and Aparna R. Rao

Part V. Consequences of SDB in Children

32. Behavioral Morbidity in Pediatric Sleep Disordered Breathing

Elise K. Hodges, Barbara