Surgery for Pectus Excavatum

Pectus Up surgery achieves the correction of Pectus Excavatum using an implantable material and a unique lifting system, which, after a sternum traction procedure and without entering the thorax, keeps it elevated definitively in a single intervention. The implanted material can be removed after 2-3 years, although it can be extracted earlier or even kept in the thorax permanently, depending on the patient’s age and evolution.

The implantable material consists of a lifting plate that rests on the rib cusps and a small sternal plate fixed to the sternum with screws. To achieve the elevation of the sternum, specific instruments are used, which, along with the implantable material and the lifting system, allow the correction of thoracic depression, sternal rotation, and reduction of asymmetries, in both children and adults affected by Pectus Excavatum.