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ABSTRACT: Study objectives
Peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT)-based technology represents a validated portable monitoring modality for the diagnosis of OSA. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of PAT-based technology in a large point-of-care cohort of patients studied with concurrent polysomnography (PSG).Methods
During study enrollment, all participants suspected to have OSA and tested by in-laboratory PSG underwent concurrent PAT device recordings.Results
Five hundred concomitant PSG and WatchPat tests were analyzed. Median (interquartile range) PSG AHI was 18 (8-37) events/h and PAT AHI3% was 25 (12-46) events/h. Average bias was + 4 events/h. Diagnostic concordance was found in 42%, 41%, and 83% of mild, moderate, and severe OSA, respectively (accuracy = 53%). Among patients with PAT diagnoses of moderate or severe OSA, 5% did not have OSA and 19% had mild OSA; in those with mild OSA, PSG showed moderate or severe disease in 20% and no OSA in 30% of patients (accuracy = 69%). On average, using a 3% desaturation threshold, WatchPat overestimated disease prevalence and severity (mean + 4 events/h) and the 4% threshold underestimated disease prevalence and severity by -6 events/h.Conclusions
Although there was an overall tendency to overestimate the severity of OSA, a significant percentage of patients had clinically relevant misclassifications. As such, we recommend that patients without OSA or with mild disease assessed by PAT undergo repeat in-laboratory PSG. Optimized clinical pathways are urgently needed to minimize therapeutic decisions instituted in the presence of diagnostic uncertainty.
SUBMITTER: Ioachimescu OC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7954003 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ioachimescu Octavian C OC Allam J Shirine JS Samarghandi Arash A Anand Neesha N Fields Barry G BG Dholakia Swapan A SA Venkateshiah Saiprakash B SB Eisenstein Rina R Ciavatta Mary-Margaret MM Collop Nancy A NA
Journal of clinical sleep medicine : JCSM : official publication of the American Academy of Sleep Medicine 20201001 10
<h4>Study objectives</h4>Peripheral arterial tonometry (PAT)-based technology represents a validated portable monitoring modality for the diagnosis of OSA. We assessed the diagnostic accuracy of PAT-based technology in a large point-of-care cohort of patients studied with concurrent polysomnography (PSG).<h4>Methods</h4>During study enrollment, all participants suspected to have OSA and tested by in-laboratory PSG underwent concurrent PAT device recordings.<h4>Results</h4>Five hundred concomitan ...[more]