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A schematic of the pressures and structural features promoting airway collapse and patency, respectively. Negative pharyngeal pressure during inspiration and various craniofacial abnormalities can promote pharyngeal collapse, whereas pharyngeal dilator muscle activation and caudal traction from increased end-expiratory lung volume can promote pharyngeal patency. (Adapted, with permission, from Malhotra and White [71])
