This article describes a single-stage surgical repair of pectus excavatum combined with mitral valve repair and David procedure in a patient with Marfan syndrome.
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Congenital thoracic
October 31, 2017
October 13, 2017
Patient Care
February 10, 2016
NHS England is evaluating a series of operations in the UK. One of the procedures it is looking at is Pectus Excavatum surgery.
December 8, 2015
This is an edition of the annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery dedicated to minimally invasive cardiothoracic surgery. It contains many approaches for thymectomy and mediastinal masses including VATS, uniportal VATS, subxiphoid approaches and robotic approaches.
August 11, 2015
This video demonstrates a laparoscopic repair of symptomatic left-side Bochdalek hernia in a 20-year-old female.
August 5, 2014
The formation of endotracheal casts comprised of inflammatory debris (plastic bronchitis) is a rare but life-threatening complication of the Fontan procedure. This summary of 14 pts so affected demonstrated a mean interval to development of plastic bronchitis of 1.5 years. Casts were treated with outpt t-PA (13 pts) and pulmonary vasodilators. Les
September 6, 2013
The cause of pectus deformities is thought to be abnormal elongation and/or distorsion of the rib cartilages. A simplified open repair is described based on the subperichondrial resection of the abnormal cartilages, and in the case of pectus excavatum, the use of an easily removable metallic strut.
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