It is a congenital, often familial disease with hereditary possibility. Its harm to patients is twofold, with physical and psychological damage, which seriously threatens patients' normal life.

Good Doctor Studio Chest Surgery Wang Qiang

1. Is funnel chest really hereditary? Let's look at the causes of this disease:

There are two reasons for the formation of funnel chest:

(1) During the growth and development of children, hereditary ribs are uncoordinated, the lower part is smaller than the upper part, and the sternum is squeezed backwards.

(2) Because the front end of diaphragm fiber is attached to the lower end of sternum and xiphoid process, when the central tendon of diaphragm is too short, sternum and xiphoid process are pulled back. Among them, moderate and severe funnel chest will cause serious pressure on the heart and lungs and cause great harm to the patient's body. Funnel chest can only be cured by surgery. It is not the same as calcium deficiency. Taking medicine and injections have no effect. Many patients often spend huge medical expenses because of continuous drug treatment, but their condition is getting worse and worse because of delay. Moreover, patients often worry that the next generation will suffer from pectus excavatum because of their own pectus excavatum disease.

2. Epidemiological characteristics of funnel chest:

Among patients with pectus excavatum, males are more common than females. Some data show that the ratio of male to female is 4∶ 1, which is a sex-linked dominant inheritance. The incidence rate among children is11000, which means that there is one child with pectus excavatum in every1000 children, which is one of them. Secondly, the incidence of pectus excavatum was 2.5‰ for those with family history, and only 1.0‰ for those without family history. But in the final analysis, there are many factors leading to the formation of funnel chest, which are not completely clear at present, but from the clinical data, funnel chest disease is still genetic.

3, funnel chest once found early treatment: for funnel chest, parents should carefully check from the child's childhood. Usually, the deformity of young patients with pectus excavatum is not obvious, and it is often symmetrical if it can be seen, but with the growth of patients' age,

The pectus excavatum deformity is gradually asymmetrical, the sternum often rotates to the right, the right costal cartilage depression is often deeper than the left, and the right breast development is worse than the left. Then the chest is mostly flat back or round back, and scoliosis gradually increases with age. Scoliosis is not easy to occur when young, and it is more obvious in patients after puberty. Due to pectoral rib deformity, the sternum sags toward the spine, funnel chest deformity oppresses the heart and lungs, and most of the heart shifts to the left chest cavity, which reduces the expansion space of the lungs and even affects the heart and lung function.

4, funnel chest home maintenance:

Families of patients with pectus excavatum should pay special attention to their children.

Most children with pectus excavatum are accompanied by emaciation, hunchback and shrug. Patients with mild illness can do more physical exercise every day to improve cardiopulmonary function. However, only through surgery can it be completely cured, and ordinary drugs and injections cannot eradicate the disease. At present, the popular mainstream treatment method is mainly thoracoscopic minimally invasive surgery.