Welcome! This website is here to share my personal experience about my Pectus Repair procedure, also known as the Nuss Procedure. This website is also help inform you all about the procedure. The contact section is open for any questions or comments and the blog section is all about my personal experience when I got the bar in as well as when I got it removed.
The number of children born with concave chest walls is on the rise and is seen as a genetic deformity. In fact, this is the problem that I and two of my siblings have faced, and our chest walls looked very similar to the first picture on the left. The downside to this deformity was that it made us unable to fully cooperate in sports or other activities, since our sternums were pushing up against our hearts and lungs. Luckily, Dr. Donald Nuss invented the Nuss Procedure in 1987 and this procedure is what helped my family and I to better health. What this procedure consists of is making small incisions on the sides of the patients chests and inserting one or two stainless steel (or sometimes titanium) bars into the chest in order to lift the sternum. During the procedure, a third incision is made for a camera to guide the bar correctly. The bar is then connected to a clip which is attached to the side of the patients rib cage and then the bar is flipped to lift the sternum. The surgery lasts about an hour and a half and afterwards, the patients chest should look something like the picture above on the right.