Objectives. Doctors all over the world consider a pectus excavatum usually as an incidental finding. There is some evidence suggesting that a pectus excavatum may cause symptoms in the elderly. It is not known how often a pectus excavatum occurs and how strong the relation is with symptoms. Methods. In hospitals and general practice data, we searched for evidence of a connection between cardiac...

BACKGROUND There is high risk in the correction surgery of pectus excavatum with scoliosis because of the lack of the correction mechanism of pectus excavatum with scoliosis. This study performed a comprehensive analysis about the impact that pectus excavatum had on scoliosis and elaborated its biomechanical mechanism in pectus excavatum patients with scoliosis. METHODS 37 pectus excavatum pa...

The author presents three decades of experience in the management of anterior chest wall deformities. During this period more than 800 operations were performed on patients with pectus excavatum and carinatum. In this series, there was no death and serious complications were rare. The author believes that the principles on which surgical treatment of pectus excavatum should be based are as foll...

INTRODUCTION Pectus excavatum is the most common congenital chest wall deformity and the depression of the anterior chest wall, which compresses the internal organs. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of pectus excavatum on blood laboratory findings. MATERIAL AND METHODS From March 2011 to December 2011, 71 patients with pectus excavatum who visited Seoul Saint Mary Ho...

Background/Introduction Pectus Excavatum is the most common congenital chest wall deformity (90%) and the documented incidence ranges between 0.1% 0.3%. Patients with Pectus Excavatum can suffer with body image and psychological issues. Indications for surgical correction remains controversial although a decrease in exercise tolerance is frequently overlooked. A general consensus persists that ...

Pectus excavatum is rare, but it is the most common type of sternal congenital disorder. There are many surgical methods to correct pectus excavatum such as the Ravitch method, Wada method, Silastic mold method, and the Nuss operation. We report a case of minimal invasive surgery for pectus excavatum using a polyvinyl alcohol sponge.

19 The aim of the study was to correlate the clinical severity of pectus excavatum with its type 20 and degree based on objective radiographic evaluation. Twelve brachycephalic dogs were 21 included. Grading of the clinical severity was done based on a 6-point grading score. 22 Thoracic radiographs were used to calculate the frontosagittal and vertebral indices at the 23 tenth thoracic vertebra...

The author describes the simultaneous treatment of pectus excavatum and congenital intracardiac defect (atrial septal defect) represented by the interatrial foramen secundum. An 8-year-old boy, with clinical and echocardiography diagnosis of atrial septal defect associated with pectus excavatum was referred to a simultaneous surgical treatment of both abnormalities. The simultaneous surgical tr...

In 88 patients with pectus deformities radiologic chest indices and routine pulmonary function tests were measured before and 1 to 20 years after corrective surgery. A combination of anteroposterior indices at the upper and lower level of the chest were investigated to quantitate and to discriminate the different pectus deformities. The study comprised four groups: pectus excavatum, pectus cari...

BACKGROUND Recently, technical improvement in the ability to measure lung function and the severity of chest deformity have enabled progress in understanding the mechanism of limitations of lung function in pectus excavatum. METHODS After establishing that most patients with pectus excavatum do have symptoms of exercise intolerance, easy fatigability, and shortness of breath with exertion, lu...