Hope Leads the Way for Girl With Rare Lung Disorder
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health performs first-in-world simultaneous lung transplant and chest wall expansion surgery on a young child.
Stanford Medicine Children’s Health performs first-in-world simultaneous lung transplant and chest wall expansion surgery on a young child.
Pectus excavatum is a depression in the chest wall that affects approximately 1 in 400 children.
Doctors diagnose and repair sunken chest using Nuss procedure with 3-D imaging and ESP block for pain, minimizing exposure to radiation and recovery time.