Tongue Muscular Assessment in Children With Sleep Disordered Breathing
Key facts
- Who runs it
- Hospices Civils de Lyon
- Where
- Bron, FranceSee the site
- Trial code
- Status
- Recruiting
- People taking part
- 78 people, planned
- Started
- 26 Mar 2026
- Expected to end
- 26 Mar 2028
- Type of study
- Interventional
- Treatments tested
- Tongue Strength Assessment
- Polysomnography
- Subjective Assessment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing
- Subjective Assessment of Daytime Functioning
- Anthropometry
- Clinical Examination
- Orofacial Praxis Assessment
- Record updated
- 30 July 2026
Who can take part
- Age
- 4 years to 17 years
- Sex
- Women and men
- Healthy volunteers
- Cannot take part
The registry criteria, word for word
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Who can take part
- With suspected sleep-disordered breathing
- Referred for polysomnography
- Affiliated to a social security scheme
- With informed consent from both legal representatives
Who cannot take part
- Regarding patients with suspected OSA type I or II:; Neurological, cardiac, or unstable respiratory conditions other than sleep disorders and their repercussions; Any deficit possibly impacting measurements according to the investigator (e.g., psychiatric condition); Malformation of the skull, the upper airway or the oral cavity
- Regarding patients with suspected OSA type III:; Any deficit possibly impacting measurements according to the investigator (e.g., psychiatric condition); Intellectual deficit impeding the understanding of instructions
- Insufficient comprehension of French language
Check if you might fit
Answer for yourself. This is not a decision: only the study team can say whether you can take part.
- Are you between 4 and 17 years old?
Where in France
- Hôpital Femme-Mère-Enfant, Service d'épileptologie clinique, des troubles du sommeil et de neurologie fonctionnelle de l'enfantBron, FranceContact: Aurore GUYON, PhDTaking people
About the trial
What the trial wants to find out
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is part of the sleep-disordered breathing spectrum. Its prevalence in children is 1-5%, and it can have negative consequences at the cardiovascular, cognitive as well as behavioral levels. In children, the first-line treatment is adenotonsillectomy. However, residual obstructive events can persist as the success rate of surgery reaches only 49% in non-obese children. Residual OSA may be explained by multiple sites of obstruction, found in 20-85% children concerned by persistent OSA. Indeed, the tongue appears among one possible primary sites of obstruction. Given the tongue's crucial role in upper-airway patency during sleep, its assessment can inform us about the myofunctional deficits involved in sleep-disordered breathing.
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The primary objective of the present study is to assess tongue motor functions in children with sleep-disordered breathing and to compare them to those of healthy children (data collected in a current study (TMAC) conducted at UCLouvain, Belgium; NCT06166680), in order to document possible myofunctional deficits in children with OSA. The hypothesis is that tongue motor functions will be lower in children with sleep-disordered breathing.
The group in the trial
- Children referred for polysomnography for suspected OSATreatment being tested
Children aged 4 to 17 years old, referred to the sleep clinic for polysomnography in a context of suspected OSA
Treatment: Tongue Strength Assessment, Polysomnography, Subjective Assessment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing, Subjective Assessment of Daytime Functioning, Anthropometry, Clinical Examination, and Orofacial Praxis Assessment
Questions to ask the study team
- How often do I need to come in, and for how long each time?
- Are travel costs paid?
- Can I keep my own doctor?
- What happens if I want to stop?
Contact the study team: see the registry record → Contacts and Locations
Print a page for my doctorData and sources
- Registry record
- Listed on ClinicalTrials.gov.
- Official title
- Tongue Muscular Assessment in Children Referred for Polysomnography in a Context of Suspected Obstructive Sleep Apnea
- Fit questions
- Built from NCT07273019, who can take part
- Record updated
- 30 July 2026