Dr. Richard J Schwab MD
Sleep Medicine Specialist | Sleep Medicine
3400 Spruce Street Philadelphia PA, 19104About
Dr. Richard Schwab practices Sleep Medicine in Philadelphia, PA. Dr. Schwab studies, diagnoses, and treats sleep disturbances and disorders due to varying factors. Sleep Medicine Physicians are trained to treat many different conditions, including insomnia, narcolepsy, sleep apnea, idiopathic hypersomnia, menstrual-related hypersomnia, and circadian rhythm disturbances, among others.
Education and Training
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania 1983
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Linear dimensions of the upper airway structure during development: assessment by magnetic resonance imaging.
- A novel volumetric magnetic resonance imaging paradigm to study upper airway anatomy.
- Identification of upper airway anatomic risk factors for obstructive sleep apnea with volumetric magnetic resonance imaging.
- Pro: sleep apnea is an anatomic disorder.
- Mandibular dimensions in children with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
- Sleep disorders during pregnancy.
- Genetic determinants of upper airway structures that predispose to obstructive sleep apnea.
- Family aggregation of upper airway soft tissue structures in normal subjects and patients with sleep apnea.
- Changes in symptoms of sleep-disordered breathing during pregnancy.
- Sleep in the critically ill patient.
- Controversy in surgical versus nonsurgical treatment of obstructive sleep apnea syndrome.
- Upper airway imaging in obstructive sleep apnea.
- The sleep-friendly ICU.
- Obstructive sleep apnea in patients undergoing bariatric surgery--a tertiary center experience.
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