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Experience with video‐assisted thoracoscopic placement of pectus excavatum splints in kittens: six cases

Journal of Small Animal Practice, EarlyView.
Objectives This case series aims to describe the use of video‐assisted thoracoscopic surgery for the treatment of pectus excavatum. Materials and Methods Six male, intact kittens, with a median age of 3.3 months (range, 2.5 to 4 months) and median weight of 1.75 kg (range, 0.44 to 2 kg), were presented to one of two referral institutions for evaluation
G. Jones, Z. Peng, S. Gasson, R. Williams, K. T. Mankin, V. Dickerson   +5 more
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Two Types of Management for the Noninvasive Treatment of Pectus Excavatum in Neonatal Puppies—Case Reports

Animals, 2023
Pectus excavatum is a deformity of the thorax characterized by ventrodorsal narrowing of the sternum bone and costal cartilages, which can lead to compression and cardiopulmonary alterations in dogs, presenting a high prevalence in brachycephalic breeds.
Keylla Helena Nobre Pacífico Pereira, Kárita da Mata Fuchs, Lara Ataídes Arantes Terçariol, Renata Cesar Silva, Gabriel de Azevedo Camargo, Júlia Cosenza Mendonça, Netelin Tainara Paulino, Marcelo Alejandro Zone, Eunice Oba, Maria Lucia Gomes Lourenço   +9 more
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Phenotype Expansion of Malan Syndrome: New Cases and a Review of the Literature

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, Volume 200, Issue 8, Page 1783-1798, August 2026.
ABSTRACT Malan syndrome is an ultra‐rare overgrowth syndrome caused by pathogenic variants or deletions in nuclear factor one X (NFIX) located at 19p13.2. Here, we report a comprehensive literature review and phenotyping of known patients with Malan syndrome and present a novel cohort of eight patients.
Alex F. Nisbet, Sylvie A. Adams, Zoe S. Katz, Christal G. Delagrammatikas, Kosuke Izumi, Winifred Sigal, Kim Ventarola, Elaine H. Zackai, Julia E. Reid, Grant T. Liu, Jennifer M. Kalish   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

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, Schmid, Ralph, Vollmar, Philippe Bernard, Praz, Fabien, Kocher, Gregor   +4 more
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Improvement of cardiopulmonary function after minimally invasive surgical repair of pectus excavatum (Nuss procedure) in children

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, Michael R Recto, Thomas Yeh   +2 more
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Delay in Diagnosis of Classical Homocystinuria

JIMD Reports, Volume 67, Issue 4, July 2026.
ABSTRACT Classical homocystinuria (HCU) is an autosomal recessive disorder of methionine metabolism with a wide spectrum of severity and clinical presentation. Timely diagnosis facilitates prompt initiation of treatment, which reduces complications. Our aim was to identify the nature of the first clinical manifestation and time to subsequent diagnosis ...
Subadra Wanninayake, Reena Sharma, Diane Green, John Bassett, Tarekegn Geberhiwot, Charlotte Dawson   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Magnetic resonance imaging in the evaluation of pectus excavatum [PDF]

Digital Diagnostics
BACKGROUND: Magnetic resonance imaging is more often used to confirm the presence of pectus excavatum and assess compression changes in the heart at this level.
Gulishe S. Muzafarova, Marina V. Vishnyakova, Alexander S. Abramenko, Vladimir A. Kuzmichev, Vladimir V. Gatsutsyn   +4 more
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Using peri‐operative patient‐ and parent‐reported experience and outcome measures to identify paediatric postsurgical recovery trajectories: an observational cohort study

Anaesthesia, Volume 81, Issue 7, Page 959-971, July 2026.
Summary Introduction Identifying postoperative pain trajectories and pre‐operative risk factors may support preventative measures and enhance pain management. We aimed to determine the feasibility of gathering peri‐operative data from families of children, describe their recovery trajectories and identify risk factors for high postsurgical pain ...
Samantha Pang, Nicholas West, Haoyu Zhao, Jessica Luo, Neil K. Chadha, Lynnie R. Correll, Heng Gan, Matthias Görges   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Minimally Invasive Pectus Excavatum Correction and Endoscopic Port Access Mitral Valve Surgery

Rambam Maimonides Medical Journal
This case study describes the successful short-term outcome of staged minimally invasive pectus excavatum correction and endoscopic mitral valve repair in a patient with severe mitral valve regurgitation and pectus excavatum.
Johan van der Merwe, Filip Casselman, Ivan Degrieck, Frank Van Praet   +3 more
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Pulmonary Embolism: A Late Complication of Pectus Excavatum Repair

, 2014
The Ravitch operation is frequently performed to correct pectus excavatum with few and minor complications. We present a case of pulmonary embolism with pulmonary endarterectomy in a patient undergoing Ravitch repair for pectus excavatum 2 years ...
YILDIZELİ, BEDRETTİN
core   +2 more sources