funnel chest/obesity

TEE is the most recent and significant addition to the already existent array of cardiovascular ultrasound imaging techniques. Never before have cardiologists reaped so many benefits from their exploitation of the close anatomic relationship between the heart and esophagus, and never before has

Several disorders of the thoracic cage are known to cause respiratory failure, by means of relatively simple mechanisms, such as the increased work of breathing, which results in alveolar hypoventilation. A variety of pathogenic mechanisms may be considered, as functions of the types of thoracic

OBJECTIVE To analyze factors on sleep apnea children's poor responding to adenoid tonsillectomy, and discuss the further treatment. METHODS Two hundred and forty three obstructive sleep apnea hypopnea syndrome (OSAHS) children who had adenoid tonsillectomy or adenoidectomy were reviewed, all cases

Fetal warfarin syndrome is a consequence of maternal intake of warfarin during pregnancy and comprises a wide range of manifestations, including some typical facial dysmorphologic features. The authors report a case of prenatal ultrasonographic diagnosis of warfarin embryopathy in an obese woman on

Robotically assisted mitral valve repair has proven its efficacy during the last decade. The most suitable approach for patients with difficult anatomies, such as morbid obesity, sternal deformities, cardiac rotation, or vascular anomalies, represents a current challenge in cardiac surgery. Herein,

There are a number of reports of interstitial deletions of the long arm of chromosome 6 that have developmental delay and obesity suggesting that this is a distinct phenotype almost like Prader-Willi syndrome. Here we report a patient with a similar deletion but a strikingly different phenotype, one

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the dosimetric gain obtained in either the planning target volume or organs at risk coverage by the use of intensity-modulated radiation therapy in some particular postoperative breast cancers. METHODS Prospective dosimetric comparison between monoisocentric conformal