Repair of Pectus Excavatum Clinical Trial
Official title:
" A Multicenter Study Comparing the Clinical Outcomes of the Nuss and Ravitch Procedures for Repair of Pediatric Pectus Excavatum"
The main goal of the pectus multicenter outcomes study is to document the utility of PEx
repair in improving health and quality of life and to test the prevailing belief that the
two predominant surgical procedures currently in use for PEx repair are essentially
equivalent in terms of long-term outcomes.
We believe the uncertainty about the impact of PEx on cardiopulmonary function is due to
part to the fact that the previous studies have not measured the physiological parameters
mostly likely affected by the defect. A protocol to test this was developed. Thus, we
propose to use these measures as well as conventional output of progressive exercise test to
examine cardiopulmonary function before and after surgical repair of PEx within the context
of the original study.
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