Growing up, Matt Schiff was just like any other kid. However, when he entered his early teenage years, he noticed a difference between him and his friends: he had a deep indentation at the center of ...

Over his 16 years, the Virginia Beach teen has been treated by a host of specialists at CHKD, including pulmonologists; cardiologists; ear, nose, and throat surgeons; and allergy, asthma, and ...

Although the Nuss Procedure is performed around the world, CHKD has emerged as the world's primary site of surgical training, research and treatment of pectus excavatum and a related condition called ...

Cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr Ivan Schewitz, who was speaking at the recent 20th Congress of the Chest Wall International Group (CWIG), said that in South Africa, only the traditional open chest surgery ...

Pectus excavatum is an abnormality of the chest in which the breastbone sinks inward (sometimes called funnel chest). Problems associated with pectus excavatum are mainly cosmetic, although the ...

Since 1987, when a surgeon at Children's Hospital of The King's Daughters developed a minimally-invasive surgery to correct sunken chest, the procedure has been adopted world-wide as a standard of ...

Evidence-based recommendations on placement of pectus bar for pectus excavatum (Nuss procedure). This involves placing one or two steel (pectus) bars under the breastbone with the aim of raising it ...