Since the publication of Sleep Apnea: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis there have been many significant changes within the field of sleep disorders. This source highlights the changes in the field of sleep apnea, while examining new treatment techniques, new treatment data, and emerging data that relates to specific disorders.
With expert testimony from both the bench and the bedside, this source:

discusses new multi-center randomized controlled clinical trials conducted for mainstay and alternative therapies
explores the changes taking place within sleep medicine at a policy level, and its status as a newly independent medical discipline
analyzes new data that has emerged from the cardiovascular effects of the disorder, and the intensive effort of investigating the cellular/molecular basis of the changes that are produced by chronic intermittent hypoxia