Severe pectus excavatum is actually asymptomatic and requires surgery. Because the chest and ribs of funnel chest are deformed, it may compress the cardiopulmonary tissue and seriously affect the cardiopulmonary function. If not treated in time, it is very likely to lead to complications such as dyspnea, respiratory failure and conduction block, which will affect children's lives.
Severe pectus excavatum should be treated by surgery as soon as possible, and rehabilitation should be carried out. Mild pectus excavatum can be treated conservatively by negative pressure suction or internal fixation, which can generally be corrected to a certain extent. Severe pectus excavatum needs surgical treatment, so we should choose traditional surgery or minimally invasive surgery according to the condition, and pay attention to rehabilitation training after operation.
In order to achieve the effect of correcting funnel chest, surgery is not necessary, because each funnel chest has different specific degree, and then it can be effectively modified, and the effect can also be achieved through minimally invasive exercise, so it can be flexibly adjusted in different degrees of funnel chest treatment.
Whether pectus excavatum needs surgery mainly depends on whether the disease is harmful to human body. The specific injury of funnel chest includes two aspects: one is physical injury, and the other is psychological injury. The physiological harm of funnel chest is mainly the oppression of the heart and lungs, and the psychological harm refers to inferiority, introversion and loneliness caused by abnormal appearance. Their harmfulness is different, but the final impact on patients is the same. In some cases, these two injuries often interact with each other. Mental problems will aggravate patients' own symptoms, and the appearance of symptoms will in turn affect patients' psychology, so these two kinds of injuries will eventually bring great pain to patients.
Generally speaking, the harm to the body often exists objectively, and some objective symptoms will be shown in severe depression. Moreover, psychological injury is mainly subjective feeling. Because of this, young patients rarely have psychological problems, and with the growth of age, especially adolescence, many patients will have serious psychological problems because of deformity, which is often unrelated to the degree of deformity. They are in pain and need the help of a doctor.