Halime Nayır Büyükşahin, Nagehan Emiralioglu, Pelin Özlem Simşek Kiper, Birce Sunman, Ismail Güzelkaş, Didem Alboğa, Meltem Akgül Erdal, Koray Boduroglu, Gülen Eda Utine, Ebru Yalcın, Deniz Doğru, Nural Kiper, Ugur Ozcelik
Children with genetic skeletal disorders have variable conditions that can lead to sleep-disordered breathing, and polysomnography is the gold standard for diagnosing this condition. We aimed to review polysomnography findings, to assess the severity of sleep apnea, and to investigate the clinical variables predictive of sleep-disordered breathing in these patients. We retrospectively collected the medical records of patients with genetic skeletal disorders who underwent polysomnography for 5 years. Twenty-seven children with various genetic skeletal disorders, including achondroplasia (14), Crouzon syndrome (3), acromesomelic dysplasia Maroteaux type (3), Apert syndrome (2), osteopetrosis (1), Jeune dysplasia (1), Desbuquois dysplasia (1), acrodysostosis (1), and spondyloepiphyseal dysplasia (1) were enrolled...
May 1, 2023: Journal of Sleep Research