Disease relevance of Funnel Chest

• A case of hyperpyrexia induced by procarbazine in a child with Hodgkin's disease, neurofibromatosis, and pectus excavatum deformity is presented [1].
• BACKGROUND: The enormous amount of unmonitored medical information on the Internet prompted this investigation into the quality of pediatric surgery information on the Internet. METHODS: The Internet was searched for information on diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), abdominal wall defects (AWD), pediatric inguinal hernia (IH), and pectus excavatum (PE) [2].

High impact information on Funnel Chest

• The penetration of ticarcillin and clavulanate into cartilage was investigated in 20 subjects undergoing funnel chest correction [3].
• PARTICIPANTS: Twelve boys (mean +/- SD age, 14.1 +/- 1.8 years; age range, 11.8-18.0 years) with moderate-to-severe pectus excavatum deformity (mean +/- SD Haller index, 3.95 +/- 0.88) and 20 control boys (mean +/- SD age, 12.5 +/- 0.4 years; age range, 12.1-13.5 years) without musculoskeletal deformity [4].
• We performed concomitant repair of pectus excavatum and an atrial septal defect through a short midline incision in an adult [5].
• METHODS: We performed EBCT in 66 patients with echocardiographically proven MVP and no clinical pectus excavatum (group A; 80% were women; mean age, 48 +/- 12 years) and in 96 control patients without MVP by echocardiography (group B; 72% were women; mean age, 49 +/- 10 years) [6].
• Titanium miniplates for the surgical correction of pectus excavatum [7].

Chemical compound and disease context of Funnel Chest

• Nine children with severe pectus excavatum deformity were operated on in the Department of Pediatric Surgery, Thoracic Unit, Ege University Faculty of Medicine, Izmir, Turkey [8].
• The question of whether ampicillin and sulbactam are able to penetrate sufficiently into costal cartilage tissue was investigated in 21 children undergoing surgery for funnel chest malformations [9].
• False-positive thallium-201 myocardial perfusion imaging caused by pectus excavatum [10].
• Parallel measurements of pyridinoline content, the ratio of soluble:insoluble collagen, and the percentage of endogenous collagenolysis were made in samples of costal cartilage from forty-five children with funnel chest (FC) and from twenty-two control children [11].
• Continuous thoracic epidural analgesia with 0.2% ropivacaine for pectus excavatum repair in children [12].

Anatomical context of Funnel Chest

• We conclude that young patients with IPE represent an isolated form of connective tissue abnormality because of the presence of pectus excavatum and MVP, but this is different from the systemic involvement of MS because of the lack of other systemic findings, including aortic root dilatation and changes in body habitus [13].

Gene context of Funnel Chest

• Pulmonary function before surgery for pectus excavatum and at long-term follow-up [14].
• CONCLUSIONS: Long-term results of pectus excavatum and carinatum repair through a vertical midline approach are excellent [15].
• CONCLUSIONS: The advantages of MIDCABG in patients with pectus excavatum is the superior exposure to the LAD and LIMA and avoidance of a median sternotomy and cardiopulmonary bypass [16].
• Pectus excavatum repair with tram flap [17].
• We treated a Japanese boy with moyamoya disease accompanied by synbrachydactylia, funnel chest, pes equinus and short stature [18].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Funnel Chest

• Pulmonary scintigraphy, including Xe-133 ventilation combined with Tc-99m MAA perfusion scans, was performed in 23 children (3 girls, 20 boys, ages: 2-9 years) with pectus excavatum, and the indices from lateral chest radiography were used for comparison [19].

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