title: Simultaneous repair of congenital heart defect and pectus excavatum.
abstract: The author describes the simultaneous treatment of pectus excavatum and congenital intracardiac defect (atrial septal defect) represented by the interatrial foramen secundum. An 8-year-old boy, with clinical and echocardiography diagnosis of atrial septal defect associated with pectus excavatum was referred to a simultaneous surgical treatment of both abnormalities. The simultaneous surgical treatment of both pectus excavatum and congenital intracardiac defects make it difficult to access the heart. In this case, the simultaneous surgical treatment of atrial septal defect and pectus excavatum was a valuable alternative to surgical repair of both abnormalities, mainly due to its cosmetic outcome.
authors.affiliation: Cardiovascular Surgery Program - Faculdade de Medicina do ABC, at the Hospital Estadual Mário Covas. jrbreda@hotmail.com
authors.forename: João Roberto
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Breda
authors.forename: Ana Silvia Castaldi Ragognetti
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Breda
authors.forename: Sueli Aparecida
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Gastaldi
authors.forename: Andréa Cristina Oliveira
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Freitas
authors.forename: Altair da Silva
authors.initials: Ada S
authors.lastname: Costa Júnior
authors.forename: Adilson Casemiro
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Pires
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D005660:Funnel Chest / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006344:Heart Septal Defects, Atrial / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography; D013908:Thoracotomy