Who are sleeping in sleep laboratory? A retrospective study

Abstract

Objective: Aim of this study is to compare the results of gold standard in diagnosing sleep disorders polysomnography (PSG) with the physician's preliminary diagnosis and complaints of patients in our data of sleep laboratory.Material and Met hod: 656 patients who made PSG were included in the study. All of the patients' age, gender, comorbid chronic disease, complaints, preliminary diagnosis and PSG diagnosis were evaluated retrospectively.Results: In our study, the average age of patients was 56 and 43% women 57% were male. Complaints of patients were snoring, fatigue, stopped breath during sleep, insomnia, headache, daytime sleepiness, restless legs and abnormal behaviors during sleep. According to preliminary diagnoses and PSG diagnoses; Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome (OSAS), narcolepsy, REM behavior disorder (RBD) reduced (p<0.05), simple snoring and insomnia increased (p<0.05), Restless Legs Syndrome (RLS) and parasomnia comply with (p>0.05). Sleep disorders in patients were accompanied by chronic diseases, hypertension (34.3%), diabetes (12.8%), Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (1.2%), epilepsy (1,8%), Parkinson's disease (3.5%), dementia (3.2%), depression (18,4%), cardiovascular disease (13.3%) and cerebrovascular disease (4.9%).Discussion: We are offering a good clinical history and physical examination with the correct interpretation of PSG for the differential diagnosis can be made true, accurate diagnoses and appropriate treatment modalities in our patients.