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Co-existing obstructive sleep apnea reduces Nuss surgery efficacy in pectus excavatum

Nuss surgery is effective in correcting pectus excavatum (PE), with a recurrence rate of 1.2–27%. Re-do surgery is successful but still has a 6% failure rate. Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experience repetitive PE-associated sternal depression during sleep. As the prevalence of OSA amo...

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Autores principales: Huang, Yi-Chih, Cheng, Yeung-Leung, Su, Wen-Lin, Lan, Chou-Chin, Wu, Yao-Kuang, Yang, Mei-Chen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9651565/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36367884
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0277494