Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital deformity of the chest wall. The most frequently used techniques include Ravitch (costochondral resection) and Nuss (minimally invasive pectus repair of pectus excavatum [MIRPE]). The Nuss technique includes using temporary metallic bars without costochondral resection to correct the chest wall deformity. Modified MIRPE can be learned easily and pe...

Pectus excavatum is the most common thoracic deformity, and there are many surgical methods used in clinic. Almost all previous operations were limited to one kind of procedure. The completion operation will directly affect effect treatment pectus excavatum. After long-term clinical practice, we found that can be treated with multiple at same time. use these completely correct deformity achieve...

Bu yazıda pektus ekskavatum ve karinatum özellikleri gösteren sekiz olguya uygulanan yeni bir cerrahi yaklaşımı tartışıldı. Pektus ekskavatum deformitelerine yönelik Nuss tekniği kullanılır iken, pektus karinatum deformitelerine yönelik rezeksiyon ve rekonstrüksiyon için titanyum mesh ve vidalar kullanıldı. Yeni tanımlanan bu cerrahi teknik Onen yöntemi olarak adlandırıldı. Anah tar söz cük ler...

In pectus excavatum, a developmental chest-wall deformity that affects approximately one in 400 births, the sternum is depressed inward and the ribs protrude anteriorly. This deformity can compromise pulmonary and/or cardiac function. It can also produce a characteristic radiographic appearance on frontal radiographs, which may be mistaken for right-middle-lobe opacification from pneumonia or a...

BACKGROUND Cardiac arrest is a lethal complication of Nuss repair of pectus excavatum which is strongly related to heart or big vessels injury. A rare case developed cardiac arrest without direct cardiac injury during Nuss procedure is presented in this article. CASE PRESENTATION In July 2015, a previously healthy 18-year-old man undergoing Nuss repair for pectus excavatum developed cardiac a...

BACKGROUND The Haller Index (HI) has become standard for determining the severity of pectus excavatum. We compared patterns of cardiopulmonary dysfunction and their relationship with HI in patients with pectus excavatum. METHODS We performed cardiopulmonary exercise testing and chest computed tomography scans on 90 patients with pectus excavatum deformities at a regional pediatric hospital. ...

UNLABELLED INTRODUCTION Blunt cardiac rupture is an exceedingly rare injury. CASE PRESENTATION We report a case of blunt cardiac trauma in a 43-year-old Caucasian German mother with pectus excavatum who presented after a car accident in which she had been sitting in the front seat holding her two-year-old boy in her arms. The mother was awake and alert during the initial two hours after th...

Introduction: Pectus Excavatum (PEX) is the most common anterior chest wall deformity. While minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (MIRPE) has improved perioperative outcomes, there continue to be opportunities optimize postoperative pain management and reduce length stay (LOS). We compared impact a multimodal expedited protocol utilizing combination systemic regional analgesia (with si...

Bio-Alcamid (Polymekon Research, Brindisi, Italy) is a permanent soft tissue filler that has been injected for the correction of contour deformities. It has a number of indications, including pectus excavatum. Infection and migration seem to be the most common complications with this product. The authors report an illustrative case of pectus excavatum deformity treated with Bio-Alcamid. Results...

The combination of chest wall abnormalities such as pectus excavatum and cardiac disease requiring operative correction represents a clinical challenge to the surgeon. We report two cases of patients with Marfan's syndrome and severe pectus excavatum in whom cardiac operations were successfully performed using a superior 'T inverted' ministernotomy. This approach allowed safe isolation of the t...