What is a funk-shaped chest? How deformation is manifested? What is the treatment? Answers to these questions you will find in the article.
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Thoracic deformations can be both congenital and acquired. Congenital deformations of the chest are usually associated with the anomalies of the development of spine, sterns, ribs and blades. The acquired deformations most often turn out to be a consequence of diseases such as rickets, tuberculosis of bones, chronic purulent processes of the lungs, as well as damage to the chest, which can cause the backlack of bones in growth.
Most often The innate deformations of the chest belongs:
- Voronko-shaped
- Flat
- Kileida
What is a funk-shaped chest
This type of deformation can be both congenital and acquired. The reason for this pathology is the congenital inferiority of the rib cartilage. The funnel breast is characterized by the deepening of the middle and lower parts of the chest wall in the form of a funnel. The side border of the recess usually serve the rib cartilage, less often the bone part of the ribs. Chest looks extended. Strengthened bending of the thoracic spine.
As a rule, with increasing deformation increases. Growing ribs as it were pulled up and more indulge in the sternum, which, with extreme degrees of deformation, almost rests on the spine. At the same time, the yard squeezes the heart and large main blood vessels, shifting them to the left and turning a bit. As a result, the children with such a patology of the chest disturbed normal blood circulation, they are lagging behind in physical development.
The funnelized deformation of the chest is classified by symmetry and the depth of the funnel. Depending on the depth of the funnel there is a greater or smaller displacement of the heart.
- With the first degree, the depth of funnels up to 2 cm. Heart shifts with this extent there is no.
- The second degree is characterized by a depth of funnels up to 4 cm. The heart can be shifted from its usual place to a distance of up to 3 cm.
- The depth of the funnel is more than 4 cm and the heart offset of more than 3 cm is the third degree of funnel deformation of the chest.
Treatment of the funnel deformation of the chest
Conservative treatment is possible only when deforming the first-degree chest. Only with this degree attempts are possible to detain the deepening of the process with the help of special gymnastics, classes of certain sports (basketball, volleyball, rowing, swimming).
The second and third degree of deformation may be exposed only to operational correction. The operation is carried out at the age of the patient from three to fourteen years. Before the operation, the child must be necessarily examined to identify other diseases that can cause deformation. Conservative treatment is carried out before the operation.
To date, more than 20 methods of surgical treatment have been proposed. Operation in Lexer is most often applied. At the same time, the yard is cut off from ribs at the level of cartilage, turns around the axis and stitched as if «inside out». Another method of the operation is a resection of a part of the rib cartilage, followed by sfasting.
