LAUSR

Considerable progress has been made in the area of sleep and breathing. We write this review to summarize a number of important topics with recent advances put into the context of the existing literature. While we recognize major progress in many different areas of sleep and ventilation, ranging from anatomic and nonanatomic pathophysiological mechanisms of obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA), nocturnal symptoms and hypoxaemia in pulmonary disease and positive airway pressure (PAP), we have focused on those felt to be most important and likely to affect clinical practice.