The front chest stickers?Take you to know the funnel chest

Recently, several adults have been treated with heartbroke surgical surgery in Changzhou Second People's Hospital. They come from different places, but they all have a common purpose: get rid of the trouble of funnel chest.

There is an old saying in China: "Pick up your chest to be a man." But there are many people who can't stand up normally, and they even hang up humpback, which is caused by the deformity of the thorax. There are many types of thoracic deformities. Among them, funnel chests are more common, but everyone knows very little about it, and even often talks with the chest. Today, Wu Qiyong, director of the Heart chest surgery of the Second People's Hospital of Changzhou City, will solve you one by one.

What is "funnel chest"?

Fully chest and chest -breasted breasts are two different diseases. The causes and treatment methods are completely different. If confusion is confused, it may delay the child's condition. The so -called funnel cheat is a congenital gradual lesion. It has a family tendency or is accompanied by congenital heart disease. protrude. Men are more common than women. Patients with funnel breasts may exist at birth, but they often become more and more obvious after a few months or even a few years. However, when the child's chest wall is abnormal, many parents think of the first time may not be a funnel chest, but another common neonatal disease -佝偻 disease.

Wu Qiyong said:

The "funnel chest" is popular: the front chest that should be flat, the depression backwards, looks like a small funnel. Fully chest is a common chest wall deformity, which is congenital disease. The main reason is that the rib growth is not coordinated. Fully chest is different from ， chest. It has nothing to do with calcium deficiency. The patient's skeletal deformity is limited to the thorax. The treatment method is completely different from the diseased disease.

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After surgery

Can "funny chest" recover by itself? Do you need treatment?

Once the patient shows the performance of the funnel chest, it will basically not improve itself.

Fully chest is likely to affect the physical and mental health of patients. Middle and severe funnel chests can cause heart compression and displacement, lungs will also be limited by thoracic deformity, affecting the patient's cardiopulmonary function.

Patients are also prone to psychological problems such as inferiority, shame, social obstacles, and autism. With the increase of age, the depression of the thoracic depression is gradually significantly, which affects beauty and seriously affect physical and mental health.

In addition, severe funnel chest deformities may also occur.

If the child has funnel chest, it is recommended that parents go to the hospital for examination to let the doctor evaluate the severity, whether the child's cardiopulmonary function is damaged. If after the evaluation, it is clear that the funnel chest is severe or has cardiopulmonary functional damage, then active treatment is needed.

How to treat "funnel chest"?

At present, funnel chest correction surgery includes NUSS correction, open sternum lifting (Ravitch surgery), sternum flip surgery (WADA surgery), and so on.

NUSS correction used by Changzhou Second Hospital Cardiac Surgery is currently the most advanced surgical method, a minimally invasive technology for the treatment of funnel chest. NUSS correction is not only corrected by its incision, small trauma, less bleeding, and less complications, but also has a good appearance, effectively improves cardiopulmonary function, and helps to reshape the patient's self -confidence.

The operation is not shaped after breaking the malformed bones, but the overall shaping of the abnormal bone without local damage. This method is equivalent to putting a "mold" in the body. Use the "mold" to push up the depressed sternum, so that the bones are supported by the shape of the "mold" to support the depressed chest and fix it. After the surgery, the clinic is regular. When the sternum itself has enough strength to support the chest wall, the "mold" can be taken out, which is generally about 3 years.

Director Wu Qiyong's friendly reminder:

Fully chest can be intervened, and the health and quality of life after treatment can return to normal. In daily life, parents should pay attention to their children's growth and development, especially when children take a bath and take off their clothes to observe. If there are obvious depression on the chest or found that the child's breasts are not coordinated, they should consult as soon as possible to treat them in time. Patients with funnel chests are better at 6 to 12 years old.

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