J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 94(6): 621-624, 1993

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Original article

PERI- AND POSTOPERATRIVE MANAGEMENT IN ONE STAGED OPERATION OF CARDIAC DISEASE COMBINED WITH PECTUS EXCAVATUM

Patients with pectus excavatum occasionally have coexisting surgical heart disease. During a 10-year period up to the end of 1988, we surgically treated a total of 2015 cases of pectus excavatum, including 12 cases with one staged operation for pectus excavatum and heart disease.
Proving the advantage of our one staged operation for the coexisting diseases we studied data resulting from the perioperative management in the group of one staged operations (n=5), and in the other group of single valve replacement (n=10).
Operative time, amount of operative blood loss and total amount of transfused blood, were 433±66 min. (mean±SD), 3180±1867 ml and 4836±2247 ml, in the former group (n=5), respectively. These data were almost similar to those in the latter group (n=10).
Postoperative ventilatory support time and ICU stay time also showed little difference between two groups. We conclude these data supports our previous report that one staged operation has no perioperative disadvantage in the surgical treatment of patients with both cardiac disease and pectus excavatum.

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