Talk:Pectus excavatum

The Leonard Procedure
Found another way to fix the problem, but it's only practiced at a University Hospital hospital in Minnesota. Then again it has been done over 1,500 times by the doctor who created it and there are now two others at the hospital who do it. Sounds interesting I just can't scrape that much together about it. Any help would be appreciated! §hep  •   ¡Talk to me!  02:28, 12 September 2008 (UTC)


 * Possible references: Enyclopedia Surgery, University of Rochester Medical Center, and the Gale Encyclopedia of Surgery. §hep  Talk  02:01, 15 March 2009 (UTC)


 * Or I guess, since the Leonard appears to be a modified ravitch...maybe it should go under that section? §hep  Talk  01:01, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

There is not always lung problems
I have this deformity and according to my doctor there is not always breathing problems in mild cases (e.g. mine). I would like to include this in the article, but I do not have any sources, some help finding some would be nice! Thanks. Crazyhistory (talk) 01:34, 11 May 2010 (UTC)


 * I don't see anything to suggest in the article that breathing problems are always present, but lung capacity is almost always affected. To my knowledge there are no sources that talk about problems that don't exist with the deformity as they would be too many to list and therefore texts only focus on problems that do occur. 174.102.83.126 (talk) (§hep logged out) 02:13, 15 May 2010 (UTC)

Things to add
A mention of the Leonard procedure per above, incorporate some information from PMID: 20207934, and make a note that the 3MP currently appears to be in a Phase II Clinical Trial sponsored by the FDA per clinicaltrials.gov, but it should be over by now. The most recent results I've found on the trial were from January 2010 at doi:10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2009.10.032 §hep  Talk  00:59, 22 August 2010 (UTC)

Suggest moving Magnet Mover Procedure
Suggest moving Magnetic Mini Mover Procedure to under the Surgery topic. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.38.215.55 (talk) 00:19, 1 April 2013 (UTC)

Can a blow to the chest or rib cage be fatal or cause severe damage or pain?
My wonderful grandson age 18 has this condition and he was struck in the right side rib cage last night. He said that the pain will persist for days. He was in extreme discomfort. What can be done for that and is there a way to develop bulk around the area to protect it? Can a blow like that be fatal? Can it be a medical emergency? Or is it just ASSOCIATED WITH MORE EXTREME PAIN THAN THE AVERAGE PERSON? I hate the caps lock key. I am very anxious about this because I love him very much and I do not like seeing him in duress. Thank you. Tom McCann.


 * Yes, it can be serious, just as it can be serious for someone without this condition. Being punched near the heart and particularly being punched in the sternum is commonly associated with a lot of pain in all people. As a rule, avoid being punched. Yours, someone with this condition. 82.153.107.197 (talk) 22:28, 21 March 2014 (UTC)

Celiac comment unnecessary?
"Pectus excavatum also occurs in about 1% of persons diagnosed with Celiac disease for unknown reasons.[citation needed]"

This un-cited comment seems irrelevant given the other content in the article. Later, it's stated "Pectus excavatum occurs in an estimated 1 in 150-1000 births" (and provides a citation). This suggests an occurrence of 0.1-1.5%. Based solely on this information, I'm going to guess the "unknown reason" it occurs in 1% of people with Celiac disease is because it occurs in somewhere around 1% of the general population...

I'm not confident enough to delete the celiac comment, but I'd ask someone with more wiki-experience to consider it. --68.112.202.234 (talk) 20:41, 19 March 2014 (UTC)mel

This condition is commonly colloquially known as spoonchest, and many people will know it only by that name. However searching that term here, or via google, does not link to this page. That should be changed.

Can someone setup a redirect to send "spoonchest" to this page ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.100.180 (talk) 12:58, 3 October 2014 (UTC)

Pectus up/Taulinoplastia
For the most part this entire section is seemingly an advertisement for a clone of the Nuss procedure. There is only one reference and that is literally just an advertisement for the surgery. CR055H41RZ (talk) 20:09, 6 April 2015 (UTC)

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Please introduce a new surgery technique for pectus excavatum:

Pectus Up: extrathoracic correction
Pectus Up, developed by Ventura Medical Technologies together with the Paediatric Surgery Service of the Parc Taulí Hospital, is a surgical technique that has represented an important technological innovation in the field of thoracic surgery for Pectus Excavatum treatment, as it is an extrathoracic method that offers a minimally invasive solution that considerably reduces the complexity and risks of the intervention. The subsequent recovery time is shorter and patients treated with Pectus Up highlight the low presence of pain and rapid incorporation into daily life.

The method consists of making a small incision in the area with the greatest depression of the sternum. At the subpectoral level, enough space is created to introduce the plate and then place it. The next step is to make a hole in the sternum without going through it, so a drill bit with limiter is used, and subsequently the lifting system is introduced in that hole. The sternum is then elevated until it contacts the plate and the system is fixed to the sternum itself. The implant must remain in the patient for a minimum period of three years, after this time, can be removed through the same incision also extrathoracic.