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What is your approach to the use of acetazolamide in patients with OSA?

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Pulmonology · Harvard Medical School

I do not believe, at this time, there is very good evidence suggesting that acetazolamide should be used as primary therapy for OSA. There is a company, Desitin, that is trying to advance a different carbonic anhydrase inhibitor, sulthiame, to treat OSA, but it has not been approved to date. That be...

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