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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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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |