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Prevalência de pectus carinatum e pectus excavatum em escolares de Manaus Prevalence of pectus carinatum and pectus excavatum in students in the city of Manaus, Brazil

Jornal Brasileiro de Pneumologia, 2009
OBJETIVO: Determinar a prevalência das deformidades congênitas da parede torácica anterior em escolares de 11 a 14 anos. MÉTODOS: Participaram do estudo escolares da rede estadual de ensino da cidade de Manaus (AM).
Fernando Luiz Westphal, Luiz Carlos de Lima, José Corrêia Lima Neto, Altair Rodrigues Chaves, Vítor Lazarini dos Santos Júnior, Brena Luize Cunha Ferreira   +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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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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Cancer Risk in Marfan Syndrome: A Swedish Population‐Based Cohort Study

International Journal of Cancer, Volume 159, Issue 7, Page 1707-1714, 1 October 2026.
The cancer risk in Marfan syndrome, an autosomal dominant connective tissue disorder, largely remains to be explored. In this population‐based matched cohort study of 1544 Swedish patients, the overall cancer risk in adults with Marfan syndrome showed no significant increase, except for the risk of endocrine tumours with a nearly threefold increase ...
Ida Nordgren, Anna Skarin Nordenvall, Alexandra Wachtmeister, Fulya Taylan, Yunxia Lu, Christina Norrby, Anna Lindstrand, Giedre Grigelioniene, Giorgio Tettamanti   +8 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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Pectus excavatum

Radiology Case Reports, 2011
In pectus excavatum, a developmental chest-wall deformity that affects approximately one in 400 births, the sternum is depressed inward and the ribs protrude anteriorly. This deformity can compromise pulmonary and/or cardiac function. It can also produce a characteristic radiographic appearance on frontal radiographs, which may be mistaken for right ...
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ANTHROPOMETRIC INDEX FOR PECTUS EXCAVATUM [PDF]

Clinics, 2007
Pectus excavatum (PEX) is a depression of the sternum in relation to the costal cartilages. Clinical and objective measures for classifying the defect are rare and difficult to apply. The present study aimed to create an anthropometric index (AI) for PEX as a method for diagnosis and for preoperative and postoperative assessment by comparing it to the ...
Rebeis, Eduardo Baldassari, Campos, José Ribas Milanez de, Fernandez, Ângelo, Moreira, Luíz Felipe Pinho, Jatene, Fabio B.   +4 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
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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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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
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