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The facial morphology in Down syndrome: A 3D comparison of patients with and without obstructive sleep apnea.
American journal of medical genetics. Part A - 1 Nov 2017
Jayaratne Yasas S N, Elsharkawi Ibrahim, Macklin Eric A, Voelz Lauren, Weintraub Gil, Rosen Dennis, Skotko Brian G
Abstract excerpt
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) occurs at a high prevalence in patients with Down syndrome (DS). A polysomnogram, which is often cumbersome and challenging, remains the gold standard method of diagnosing OSA. OSA in patients with DS is often attributed to skeletal and soft-tissue structural alterations that are characteristic of the DS phenotype; as such, we hypothesized that assessing anthropometric facial...
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