Pectus Excavatum Pictures Before And After. Pulmonary function was assessed 2 weeks before and 4-6 months after the surgery. The purpose of this investigation was to assess changes in cardiac function during rest and exercise. Before and After Pics of Nuss Procedure. In 1963 Polgar and Koop 1 expressed concern over the number of operations for pectus excavatum PE that were being performed and whether they were justified by objective measures of improvement.
This thread is archived. Posted by 3 months ago. The CT scan is not painful and simply requires your child to lie still for about 5-10 minutes while a series of pictures are taken. Usefulness of chest images for the assessment of pectus excavatum before and after a Nuss repair in adults Eur J Cardiothorac Surg. Whether or not cardiac function improves after repair remains controversial and has primarily been limited to isolated case reports. Exercise performance testing in patients with pectus excavatum before and after Nuss procedure.
Before and After Pics of Nuss Procedure.
42k members in the PectusExcavatum community. METHODS A total of 154 adults with a mean age of 240 50 years range 1844 years who underwent a Nuss repair of PE with a mean follow-up of 42 months range 1471 months were. Before After photos of a SIMPLE Pectus Repair of male in his 30s. 1Department of Pediatric and Adolescent Surgery Medical University of Graz Auenbruggerplatz 34 8036 Graz Austria. Surgical correction of pectus excavatum frequently results in subjective improvement of exercise tolerance. Preoperative and postoperative pulmonary function data were compared between the symmetric and asymmetric types.