(1) Partial duplication of the proximal part of the long arm of chromosome 5, on the other hand, is associated mainly with musculoskeletal abnormalities including muscle hypotrophy and hypotonia, scoliosis, lordosis, pectus carinatum, cubitus valgus, and genu valgum, in addition to psychomotor retardation.
(2) Two strikingly similar brothers issued from consanguineous parents in the second degree present the following patterns of anomalies: retardation of growth, mental deficiency, ocular abnormalities, pectus excavatum and camptodactyly.
(3) The patient's main phenotypic features were short-limb dwarfism, craniofacial disproportion with prominent forehead, short neck and trunk with pectus carinatum, and platyspondyly, protuberant abdomen, acromesomelic shortness of limbs, bilateral palm simian crease, short feet with brachydactyly of the 2nd toe, and prominent heels.
(4) Surgical procedures for the treatment of pectus excavatum--sternocostal elevation and sternal turnover--resulted in an excellent cosmetic result but did not importantly affect respiratory function.
(5) An emergency operation consisting of Cabrol's procedure for aortic dissection Stanford Type A and sternal turnover for pectus excavatum was performed simultaneously.
(6) From 1949 to 1977, 254 children underwent surgical reconstruction of pectus excavatum by means of a variety of operations at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(7) Seventy-one patients had operations for correction of pectus excavotum; 16 had pectus carinatum deformities repaired.
(8) We reviewed the records of 28 patients with Marfan syndrome and 30 age-matched control patients with presumed isolated pectus excavatum to determine the outcome of surgical repair of the pectus deformity in Marfan syndrome.
(9) Pectus excavatum would therefore seem to be the expression of a minor form of dystrophy of collagen and elastin tissues and a clinical marker of possible mitral valve prolapse.
(10) The shape of pectus excavatum makes it particularly amenable to correction with the transverse abdominal myocutaneous flap.
(11) Early repair of marked pectus excavatum in young children is safe and is efficacious in providing a suitable body contour.
(12) Pectus excavatum and pectus carinatum deformities are not uncommon.
(13) For these reasons we advocate operation for pectus deformity as any age.
(14) Over a 14-yr period, 13 patients have had surgical correction of pectus carinatum at The Johns Hopkins Hospital.
(15) Patients with "straight back" and pectus excavatum should be examined clinically and perhaps by echocardiography to exclude idiopathic prolapse of the mitral valve; when murmurs are present, a diagnosis of "pseudoheart disease" should not be made before mitral valve prolapse has been excluded.
(16) There were no differences in abdominal pressure swings during respiration between the patients with pectus excavatum and the control subjects.
(17) Respiratory distress and congestive heart failure were rapidly relieved, while the pectus deformity improved gradually and completely disappeared in 6 months to 2 years after surgery.
(18) We report a case of King's syndrome without the cryptorchidism and pectus carinatum associated with the syndrome.
(19) Pulmonary function was evaluated in 138 patients with pectus excavatum, paying particular attention to the degree of severity of chest deformity.
(20) Pectus carinatum is a cosmetic problem, but its presence can be psychologically devastating to the patient.
Rectus
Definition:
(n.) A straight muscle; as, the recti of the eye.
Example Sentences:
(1) The authors propose three regular procedures with which they are experienced: repair with a large retromuscular nonabsorbable synthetic tulle prosthesis for extensive epigastric eventrations, fillup aponeuroplasty using the sheath of the rectus abdominis associated with a premuscular patch in case of diastasis or of multiple superimposed orifices and suture associated with a small retromuscular auxiliary patch to treat small incisional hernias.
(2) This study demonstrates the termination of ascending tract of Deiters' (ATD) axons on ipsilateral medial rectus (MR) motoneurons.
(3) At a concentration of 10 microM, tetraamine 4 did not affect histamine and 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors of guinea pig ileum or alpha-adrenoreceptors of guinea pig atria whereas it inhibited postsynaptic alpha-adrenoreceptors of rat vas deferens with a -log K value of 5.23 and nicotinic receptors of frog rectus abdominis with an IC50 value of 0.23 microM.
(4) Bimedial rectus recession with measurement from the limbus was combined with conjuctival recession 85 children undergoing surgery for esotropia.
(5) When maximal isometric trunk flexor or extensor torques were imposed upon a maximal Valsalva manoeuvre, transversus abdominis activity and intra-abdominal pressure remained comparable within and across conditions, whereas obliquus internus, obliquus externus and rectus abdominis activities either markedly increased (flexion) or decreased (extension).
(6) In the same subject, also the ratio between the number of the muscle spindles found in m. rectus dorsalis and that of m. levator palpebrae superioris was examined.
(7) The most commonly used techniques, in our institution, are tissue expansion, use of the latissimus dorsi flap, and use of the transverse rectus abdominis musculocutaneous (TRAM) flap.
(8) Practoloo, USVC 6524 and Inpea produced a dose related inhibition of acetylcholine induced contractions of rectus abdominis muscle of frog.
(9) The effect of partial resection of the gyrus rectus during the unilateral pterional approach on surgical outcome was evaluated in 194 consecutive patients with ruptured anterior communicating artery aneurysms.
(10) Collection of EMGs of soleus, lateral gastrocnemius, vastus medialis and rectus femoris lasted for 200 msec after stimulation, which was triggered when the pedal was 56 degrees beyond top-dead-center.
(11) However, during both hypercapnia and PEEP, length changes of the external oblique were significantly greater than those of the rectus abdominis.
(12) Frequently, the medial rectus muscle must be recessed 10 nm or more and the lateral rectus muscle resected 10 nm or more to achieve this result.
(13) Parenteral nutrition with 50% triacetin and 50% LCTs promoted a positive nitrogen balance similar to that of 100% LCTs, increased protein in rectus muscle and liver, smaller and more numerous mucosal cells in jejunum and colon, and increased colonic mucosal weight compared with the other groups.
(14) The effects of age and endurance training on muscle fibre characteristics were studied in a slow (m. soleus, MS) and in a fast (m. rectus femoris, MRF) skeletal muscle.
(15) Fibers originating from riMLF DMLBs projected, usually ipsilaterally, to the NIC as well as in the inferior rectus and the superior oblique subdivisions of the oculomotor complex.
(16) We propose inadvertent excision of the lateral portion of the inferior rectus muscle during inferior oblique myectomy as the probable mechanism of inferior rectus injury.
(17) Essentially there is no influence of the HCN stimulation on bilateral superior rectus (SR), inferior rectus (IR), superior oblique (SO) and inferior oblique (IO) motoneurons.
(18) The rectus abdominis electromyogram recorded expiratory muscle activity during the expiratory pause; vagotomy markedly reduced it in upright dogs and it was undetectable in supine dogs.
(19) Brief periods of a rapid-eye-movement (REM) state characterized by phasic lateral rectus and diaphragmatic activity and absence of nuchal activity were recognized.
(20) The rectus abdominis musculocutaneous free flap, based on the deep inferior epigastric artery and vein, has been used widely in reconstruction of the breast and extremities.