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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:1082-1083
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

A complication of pectus excavatum operation: endomyocardial steel strut

Ertan Onursal, MDa, Alper Toker, MDa, Korkut Bostanci, MDa, Ufuk Alpagut, MDa, Emin Tireli, MDa

a Department of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery, University of Istanbul, Istanbul Medical School, Istanbul, Turkey

Address reprint requests to Dr Toker, nönü Cad. Yildiz Sok. STFA B-6 Blok Daire 13, Kozyatai, stanbul 81090, Turkey
e-mail: korkutbostanci{at}superonline.com

An 18-year-old patient who had correction of pectus excavatum deformity in our department 4 years earlier was admitted because of stabbing chest pain. He had not attended to postoperative controls and had not come for extraction of the steel strut, although he had been contacted. He was diagnosed to have a broken steel strut, and the strut was noted to be embedded in the myocardium. This unreported complication of pectus excavatum operation forced us to review sternal support techniques.




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