Adenotonsillectomy for Childhood Sleep Apnea does not improve attention or executive function

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Adenotonsillectomy for Childhood Sleep Apnea does not improve attention or executive function.

However, as compared with the watchful-waiting group, the early-adenotonsillectomy group had significant improvement on polysomnographic, behavioral, symptomatic, and quality-of-life measures.

However, 46% of the patients in the watchful-waiting group had a normalization of polysomnographic findings after 7 months

References:

NEJM article: http://buff.ly/167Vndb and editorial: http://bit.ly/14xa1WZ