Open AccessSuccessful management for repeated bar displacements after Nuss method by two bars connected by a stabilizer
Author(s) -
Kotoku Yoshida,
Tsutomu Kashimura,
Yuji Kikuchi,
Hayakazu Nakazawa
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
annals of thoracic medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.639
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1817-1737
pISSN - 1998-3557
DOI - 10.4103/atm.atm_84_19
Subject(s) - medicine , nuss procedure , bar (unit) , surgery , pectus excavatum , displacement (psychology) , stabilizer (aeronautics) , funnel chest , structural engineering , psychology , physics , meteorology , psychotherapist , engineering
The Nuss method has become the standard surgery for the treatment of funnel chest, and good therapeutic results have been reported. Among the complications of the Nuss method, displacement of the bar is the most frequent, and there are cases in which reoperation is necessary. In this case report, we have devised a new stabilizer that connects and fixes two bars as bar displacement occurred following each of the two prior Nuss procedures, and the outcome of our procedure was evaluated.