Episode 27: Sternoplasty — Chest Wall Deformity, the Funnel Chest, and the Operation That Straightens What Was Bent Since Birth

He won't take his shirt off. His right ventricle is being compressed. And the treatment is a steel bar passed blindly through the mediastinum anterior to his beating heart.Haller index, the Nuss procedure, the modified Ravitch, perichondrial sleeve preservation, bar displacement, and the cardiac perforation that happens when the introducer goes one centimetre too deep. Episode 27 — sternoplasty, from the echo to the bar removal two years later.