Diastolic and Systolic Cardiac Dysfunction in Pectus Excavatum: Relationship to Exercise and Malformation Severity.
Ignacio M RaggioMarcelo Martínez-FerroGaston Bellia-MunzonCarlos CapunayMartín MunínLuzía ToselliPatricia CarrascosaGastón A Rodríguez-GranilloPublished in: Radiology. Cardiothoracic imaging (2020)
This study identified evidence of diverse adverse functional and morphologic cardiac manifestations in PEX, involving signs of abnormal diastolic and systolic right ventricular function and compression of the atrioventricular groove, which worsened during stress and were related to malformation severity.© RSNA, 2020: An earlier incorrect version of this article appeared online. This article was corrected on October 19, 2020.