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Digital Morphometrics: A New Upper Airway Phenotyping Paradigm in OSA.
Chest - 1 Aug 2017
Schwab Richard J, Leinwand Sarah E, Bearn Cary B, Maislin Greg, Rao Ramya Bhat, Nagaraja Adithya, Wang Stephen, Keenan Brendan T
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: OSA is associated with changes in pharyngeal anatomy. The goal of this study was to objectively and reproducibly quantify pharyngeal anatomy by using digital morphometrics based on a laser ruler and to assess differences between subjects with OSA and control subjects and associations with the apnea-hypopnea index (AHI). To the best of our knowledge, this study is the first to use digital morphometrics...
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