pectus excavatum in a sentence
Examples
- Roughly 20 % of patients with SCSFLS exhibit features of Marfan syndrome, including tall stature, hollowed chest ( pectus excavatum ), arched palate.
- In the 1980s, CHKD surgeon Donald Nuss developed a procedure to correct pectus excavatum, and CHKD remains a leading center for the Nuss procedure.
- The 10-year-old boy suffered from a congenital condition called pectus excavatum, or sunken or funnel chest, that occurs in about one child in 1, 000.
- Miller has pectus excavatum, a deformity of the thoracic wall which causes the chest to cave in due to the sternum and rib cage growing abnormally.
- By Thursday afternoon, Patrick, who was born with what's called " funnel chest " or more properly, " pectus excavatum, " was being weaned from pain medications.
- Chest wall deformities such as pectus excavatum can cause the sternum to invert, thus increasing the index, which can reach 3.25 or even as high as 5.5
- Pectus excavatum is sometimes considered to be cosmetic but depending on the severity, it can impair cardiac and respiratory function and cause pain in the chest and back.
- However, there appears to be two conditions with increased incidence in the breed : lordosis ( excessive curvature of the spine ) and pectus excavatum ( hollowed chest ).
- Pectus excavatum is also a relatively common symptom of Noonan syndrome, Marfan syndrome and Loeys-Dietz syndrome and sometimes is found in other connective tissue disorders such as Ehlers Danlos Syndrome.
- Two brothers with abnormal neurological development, short height, pylorus stenosis, pectus excavatum, craniosynostosis, large ears, thin upper lip and bilateral cryptorchidism were reported by Dundar et al . in 2012.