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This paper presents four severe cardiac injuries that occurred in patients who underwent the minimally invasive repair of pectus excavatum (MIRPE). These complications occurred in different clinical settings, namely in a patient with an extremely severe form of pectus, in a patient who had previously undergone an open repair, after a previous open heart surgery, and at the time of bar removal. The...
Pectus excavatum (PE) is a congenital sternal depression. The two most popular methods of correction are the highly modified Ravitch repair (HMRR) and the Nuss procedure. Presented here is a case of PE surgical correction in a 17.5-year-old male, beginning with the Nuss technique and converting to the HMRR during surgery, due to unsatisfying results. The procedure inadvertently culminated in perforation...
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