Regional chest wall motion dysfunction in patients with pectus excavatum demonstrated via optoelectronic plethysmography.

Abstract

Optoelectronic plethysmography kinematic analysis allows for quantification of focal chest wall motion dysfunction.

Patients with PE demonstrate significantly decreased chest wall motion at the area of the pectus defect and increased abdominal contributions to respiration compared with controls.

This finding may help to explain exertional symptoms of easy fatigability or shortness of breath in PE.

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Subjects

• Adolescent
• Biomechanics
• Case-Control Studies
• Child
• Female
• Funnel Chest
• Humans
• Lung Volume Measurements
• Male
• Motion
• Plethysmography
• Prospective Studies
• Respiratory Mechanics
• Sensitivity and Specificity
• Severity of Illness Index
• Thoracic Wall
• Tidal Volume
• Young Adult

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Authors

• Richard E Redlinger
• Robert E Kelly
• Donald Nuss
• Michael Goretsky
• M Ann Kuhn
• Kristal Sullivan
• Ashley E Wootton
• Angela Ebel
• Robert J Obermeyer

Publication date

2011-06-20

Journal

Journal topics

• General Surgery
• Pediatrics

Language

Eng.

Copyright

Journal of pediatric surgery

Department of Surgery, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA, USA.

Release reference

J Pediatr Surg. 2011 Jun;46(6):1172-6

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