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Case Reports

Restrictive Chest Wall Deformity as a Complication of Surgical Repair for Pectus Excavatum

^a Department of Thoracic Surgery and Pathology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taipei City, Taiwan
^b Mackay Medicine, Nursing and Management College, Taipei City, Taiwan

Accepted for publication June 16, 2009.

^_* Address correspondence to Dr Chen, Department of Thoracic Surgery and Pathology, Mackay Memorial Hospital, No. 92, Section 2, Chung Shan N Rd, Taipei City, Taiwan 10449 (Email: musclenet2003{at}yahoo.com.tw).

The Ravitch operation is frequently performed to correct pectus excavatum. However, extensive destruction of the perichondrium and rib growth centers may lead to failure of subsequent chest wall development. A 29-year-old man who underwent a Ravitch operation 26 years previously developed a restrictive chest wall deformity, which resulted in severe pulmonary hypertension and restrictive lung disease.