Association between morphometric variables and nocturnal desaturation in sickle-cell anemia

OBJECTIVE: to evaluate associations between morphometric variables, cervical circumference (CC), and abdominal circumference (AC) with the presence of nocturnal desaturation in children and adolescents with sickle-cell anemia. METHODS: all patients were submitted to baseline polysomnography, or...

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Main Authors: Cristina Salles, Marcelo Bispo, Regina Terse Trindade-Ramos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-07-01
Series:Jornal de Pediatria
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0021-75572014000400420&lng=en&tlng=en