The effect of nasal and oral breathing on airway collapsibility in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: Computational fluid dynamics analyses

Masaaki Suzuki; Tadashi Tanuma

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0231262

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The effect of nasal and oral breathing on airway collapsibility in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: Computational fluid dynamics analyses

Masaaki Suzuki ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Masaaki Suzuki, Tadashi Tanuma

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: suzukima@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, Chiba, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4103-929X

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Tadashi Tanuma

Contributed equally to this work with: Masaaki Suzuki, Tadashi Tanuma

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Fluid-Structural Simulation and Design, Strategic Innovation and Research Center, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan
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The effect of nasal and oral breathing on airway collapsibility in patients with obstructive sleep apnea: Computational fluid dynamics analyses

Masaaki Suzuki,
Tadashi Tanuma

Published: April 13, 2020
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0231262

About the Authors

Masaaki Suzuki

Contributed equally to this work with: Masaaki Suzuki, Tadashi Tanuma

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: suzukima@med.teikyo-u.ac.jp

Affiliation Department of Otolaryngology, Teikyo University Chiba Medical Center, Chiba, Japan

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4103-929X

Tadashi Tanuma

Contributed equally to this work with: Masaaki Suzuki, Tadashi Tanuma

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology

Affiliation Laboratory of Fluid-Structural Simulation and Design, Strategic Innovation and Research Center, Teikyo University, Tokyo, Japan

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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