What symptom is pectus excavatum

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Pectus excavatum is a kind of congenital disease, which generally has a family history. Therefore, people also need to know more about the symptoms of pectus excavatum. This article will introduce the symptoms of pectus excavatum.

What symptom is pectus excavatum

Symptom 1: the patients with mild pectus excavatum compression symptoms in infancy are often ignored. Although some patients have inspiratory wheezing and sternal inhalative depression, the cause of respiratory obstruction is often not detected. Children are often thin and weak, not active, prone to upper respiratory tract infection, activity is limited. Forced expiratory volume and maximal ventilation volume decreased significantly. Panic, shortness of breath and dyspnea occurred during activities. In addition to chest deformity, signs often have mild hunchback, abdominal protrusion and other special body.

Symptom 2: the sternal body (especially the root of xiphoid process) and its corresponding costal cartilages of the third to sixth ribs on both sides are sunken inward, resulting in funnel-shaped anterior chest wall, compression and displacement of the heart, and limited movement of the lung due to chest deformity, which affects the cardiopulmonary function of children. Children with palpitations and shortness of breath after activity often have upper respiratory tract and lung infection, and even heart failure. After 3 years old, the symptoms became more and more obvious, with concave chest, protruding abdomen, emaciation and poor development. Pectus excavatum is a funnel-shaped deformity in which the sternum, costal cartilage and a part of the ribs are depressed to the spine. Most of the sternum of pectus excavatum starts backward from the level of the second or third costal cartilage, reaches the lowest point slightly above the xiphoid process, and then returns forward to form a ship like deformity. On both sides or outside of the pectus excavatum, the two walls of pectus excavatum were formed. The ribs of pectus excavatum are steeper than normal. The ribs are depressed from the upper back to the lower front so that they are close to each other. In severe cases, the deepest depression of sternum can reach the spine.

Symptom 3: the deformity of young pectus excavatum patients is often symmetrical. With the growth of age, the deformity of pectus excavatum gradually becomes asymmetric. The sternum often rotates to the right side, the depression of the right costal cartilage is often deeper than that of the left side, and the development of the right breast is worse than that of the left side. After the chest for flat back or round back, and scoliosis will continue to increase with age, in a younger age, it is not easy to appear scoliosis, adolescent patients with scoliosis is more obvious.

matters needing attention

After having a certain understanding of the symptoms of pectus excavatum, patients with pectus excavatum should be treated by operation in time during their illness. However, it should be noted that after pectus excavatum operation, patients can't bend and rotate their chest and waist in a week, and don't take strenuous exercise in three months.