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Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum in adults: long-term results in a prospective observational study. [PDF]
, 2016 OBJECTIVES Since the end of the 1990s, the management of pectus excavatum has undergone major changes. The Nuss procedure (pectus bar) has been the method of choice for patients with pectus excavatum at Bern University Hospital for over a decade.
Hoksch, Beatrix +4 more
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Annals of Pediatric Cardiology, 2019 Background: Severe pectus excavatum in children may result in cardiorespiratory functional impairment; therefore, we evaluated cardiopulmonary response to exercise before and after the Nuss procedure.
Bibhuti B Das +2 more
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Sudden cardiac arrest during Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum
Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2020 Cardiac arrest during the Nuss procedure is the most serious complication and is related to cardiac injury by the surgical instruments and pectus bars.
Do Yeon Kim, Jin Yong Jeong
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Pectus excavatum requiring temporary pacemaker implantation before Nuss procedure: a case report. [PDF]
, 2020 Pectus excavatum is the most common chest wall deformity, and some patients also have it combined with cardiac arrhythmias. It is a rare occurrence for there to be a severe conduction block that requires a temporary pacemaker implantation before the ...
Wang, Gebang +8 more
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Short Nuss bar procedure [PDF]
Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2016 The Nuss procedure is now the preferred operation for surgical correction of pectus excavatum (PE). It is a minimally invasive technique, whereby one to three curved metal bars are inserted behind the sternum in order to push it into a normal position. The bars are left in situ for three years and then removed.
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Development and Validation Methodology of the Nuss Procedure Surgical Planner [PDF]
, 2012 Pectus excavatum (PE) is a congenital chest wall deformity which is characterized, in most cases, by a deep depression of the sternum. A minimally invasive technique for the repair of PE (MIRPE), often referred to as the Nuss procedure, has been proven ...
Rechowicz, Krzysztof J.
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The Role of Three-Dimensional Printing in the Nuss Procedure: Three-Dimensional Printed Model-Assisted Nuss Procedure [PDF]
The Annals of Thoracic Surgery, 2018 The Nuss procedure is a minimally invasive surgery for pectus excavatum. Success of the Nuss procedure is dependent on a previously bent pectus bar that is shaped to the desired curvature of the chest wall. Traditionally, the size and curvature of the metallic pectus bar are determined by trial and error.
Kuan-Hsun, Lin +8 more
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Embarrassed Radiofrequency Catheter Ablation of Supraventricular Tachycardia in Pectus Excavatum
The Ewha Medical Journal, 2022 A 16-year-old patient with pectus excavatum visited our hospital because of palpitation. He underwent first Nuss operations at the age of 3. When he was 13 years old, the slow-fast type atrioventricular nodal reentrant tachycardia was documented during ...
Gahyun Lee, Ji-Eun Ban
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Nuss bar procedure: past, present and future [PDF]
Annals of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2016 Repair of pectus excavatum began at the beginning of the 20th century before endotracheal intubation was standard practice. Surgeons therefore developed techniques that corrected the deformity using an open procedure via the anterior chest wall. Initial techniques were unsatisfactory, but by the 1930s the partial rib resection and sternal osteotomy ...
Donald, Nuss +2 more
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Health-related quality of life after Nuss procedure for pectus excavatum: a cross-sectional study
, 2022 OBJECTIVES: Pectus excavatum (PE) can cause both physical and psychosocial symptoms and affect patients’ health-related quality of life. Previous international studies have shown that the Nuss procedure increases both self-esteem and body image.
Sundqvist, Ann Sofie +12 more
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