Chest wall surgery for asphyxiating thoracic surgery.
Our experience to date suggests that LTE is a safe and effective treatment of symptomatic patients with ATD. Patients uniformly are clinically improved. Measured increases in thoracic volume are offset by overall increases in body size keeping the percent of predicted volumes low, suggesting mechanisms other than pure thoracic volume increase to explain the observed clinical improvement. Long term follow-up is mandatory.
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Department of Pediatric Lung Surgery, Columbus Childrens Hospital, Ohio State University, 2455 Canterbury Rd, Columbus OH, USA. Tdavis@chi.osu.edu
D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D012129:Respiratory Function Tests; D012131:Respiratory Insufficiency / Q000601:surgery*; D013577:Syndrome; D019616:Thoracic Surgical Procedures / Q000379:methods*; D035441:Thoracic Wall / Q000601:surgery; D013909:Thorax / Q000002:abnormalities*; D016896:Treatment Outcome