Patient's question:
The baby is two years old and has severe pectus excavatum. I want to have corrective surgery. Is the recovery period quick?Doctor's answer:
Developmental imbalance of the sternum, vertebrae, and ribs causes chest deformity.2. Malnutrition: Infants and young children do not receive adequate nutrition, suffer from certain malnutrition-related diseases, such as rickets, which over time can affect the development of the sternum and other structures, leading to chest deformity.
3. Secondary to diseases within the chest cavity. For example, certain congenital heart diseases, where an enlarged heart compresses the chest wall, forming pectus carinatum deformity. Other examples include flat chest deformity caused by chronic empyema.