thaisleepindex.com  Many early publications on snoring, apnea, OSA and PSG in Thailand are listed here e.g. PSG in children at Ramathibodi Hospital (1996). Key words: Thai, Thailand, adults, airway, apnea, apnoea, bi-level, breathing, children, circadian, continuous, CPAP, CSA, disorders, drowsiness, dyssomnia, hypersomnolence, insomnia, LAUP, mask, mental, monitoring, morbidity, multi-channel, narcolepsy, nasal, neurologic, patients, pharyngoplasty, palatoplasty, OSA, parasomnia, pediatric, polygraphic, polysomnography, positive, pressure, PSG, pulmonary, respiratory, rhonchopathic, rhythm, sleep, sleepiness, snorers, snoring, SUNDS, SUDS, surgery, treatment, UPPP, uvulopalatopharyngoplasty, ventilation. Publications and references on sleep disorders by Thai researchers, physicians, specialists, allied health professionals and others e.g. uvulopalatopharyngoplasty for excessive snoring, daytime sleepiness, sleep apnea and hypertension (1988). However, latest publications on sleep research can be found elsewhere.

This index is complied in memory of the late Prof. Poonkasem Charoenpan (ศ.พญ.พูนเกษม เจริญพันธุ์), a pioneer in adult sleep medicine and polysomnography at Faculty of Medicine Ramathibodi Hospital (คณะแพทยศาสตร์ ร.พ. รามาธิบดี), Mahidol University, Thailand.
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1980-1989
Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์). Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty for excessive snoring, daytime sleepiness, sleep apnea and hypertension. [First reported case of UPPP in Thailand]. Intern Med (Thailand) 1988;4(3):108-11.
Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์). Snoring: morbidity and treatment. [An early report on snoring, apnea and multi-channel monitoring in Thailand]. In: Charoenratanakul S, Pushpakom R, Maranetra N, Nana A, Doharranintra B, eds. Respiratory diseases. Proceedings of the 11th Asia-Pacific Congress on Diseases of the Chest Bangkok: Chuan Printing Press, 1989:87-95.
Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์). Snoring, morbidity and treatment- rhonchopathic disorders. Abstract Book of the 11th Asia-Pacific Congress on the Diseases of the Chest, Nov 19-22, Bangkok, 1989:48.
Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์). Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty for excessive snoring, sleep apnea, and the new SAM system of monitoring sleep apnea. Abstract book of the 8th Joint Congress of the Asian-Pacific Federation of the International College of Surgeons, Bangkok, Nov 14-15, 1989:219.
Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์). Uvulopalatopharyngoplasty for excessive snoring and sleep apnea and the problem of monitoring - a new portable sleep apnea monitor. Abstract Book of the 4th ASEAN Otorhinolaryngological Head Neck Congress, Singapore, April 6-9, 1989:135.
คณิต มันตาภรณ์. การกรนรักษาได้โดย uvulopalatopharyngoplasty. Rama Med J 2531/1988;11:201.
สุจีรา จรัสศิลป์. Psychogenic insomnia. ว.สมาคมจิตแพทย์แห่งประเทศไทย 2528/1985;30(3):127-36.

1990-1999
Charoenpan P (พูนเกษม เจริญพันธุ์), Boonkird P (ประเสริฐ บุญเกิด), Puavilai G (กอบชัย พัววิไล), Rattanaprakarn R (รังสรรค์ รัตนปราการ), Indraprasit D, Tanpaichitr V, Indraprasit R, Ratanaprakarn K, Likittanasombat K, Muntarbhorn K, Tasanavivat P. Physiological and biochemical changes during the nighttime in SUDS. Abstract Book of the 6th Congress of the Western Pacific Association of Critical Care Medicine, Bangkok, Dec 1-4, 1991:182.
Charoenpan P (พูนเกษม เจริญพันธุ์), Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์), Boongird P (ประเสริฐ บุญเกิด), Puavilai G (กอบชัย พัววิไล), Ratanaprakarn R, Indraprasit D, Tanpaichitr V, Likittanasombat C, Varavithya W, Tatsanavivat P. Physiological and biochemical changes during the night in sudden unexplained death syndrome. Abstract Book of the XIIIth International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria, Nov 29 - Dec 4, Jomthien-Pattaya, 1992:300-1.
Charoenpan P (พูนเกษม เจริญพันธุ์), Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์), Boongird P (ประเสริฐ บุญเกิด), Puavilai G, Ratanaprakarn R, Indraprasit D, Tanpaichitr V, Likittanasombat C, Varavithya W, Tatsanavivat P. Physiological and biochemical changes in sudden unexplained death syndrome (Lai Tai). [An early report on sudden unexplained death syndrome and multi-channel monitoring in Thailand]. South East Asia J Trop Med 1994;25:335-40.
Charoenpan P (พูนเกษม เจริญพันธุ์), Thanakitcharu S (สิทธิ์เทพ ธนกิจจารุ), Muntarbhorn K (คณิต มันตาภรณ์), Kunachak S (สมยศ คุณจักร), Boonkird P, Likittanasombat K, Suwansathit W. Sleep apnoea syndrome in Ramathibodi Hospital: clinical and polysomnographic baseline data. [An early report on polysomnography and sleep apnoea/apnea in adults in Thailand]. Respirology 1999;4:371-4.
Charoenpan P (พูนเกษม เจริญพันธุ์). การเปลี่ยนแปลงทางระบบหายใจขณะหลับ (plus respiration-related sleep disorder). Neuroscience Symposium VIII Committee, ed. Sleep, Sleep Disorders and Sudden Unexplained Nocturnal death Syndrome. O.S. printing House:Bangkok, 1991:104-13.