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Transcatheter Pulmonary Valve Replacement from Autologous Pericardium with a Self-Expandable Nitinol Stent in an Adult Sheep Model
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[Thoracoplasty by pectus carinatum in children]
Abstract:
91 children were operated on pectus carinatum. Patients were aged 9-15 years. Thoracoplasty by Ravich was performed in 32 children (the first group) and 59 patients were operated using the method of thoracoplasty, modified by the authors. The major features were: transverse skin incision not longer than 8 sm, mobilization of the skin, subcutaneous fat and pectoral muscles en block, bilateral subperichondral resection of the deformated ribs, resection of the most deformated part of the sternal body (up to 2.0-2.5 sm) and suturing the fragments end-to-end. The long-term follow-up results were studied in term from 6 months to 5 years. The comparative analysis of the results demonstrated obvious advantages of the author's method of thoracoplasty.
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