Autonomic Dysfunction in Patients With Pectus Excavatum.

Autonomic Dysfunction in Patients With Pectus Excavatum.

Investigators conducted a pilot study to to evaluate the autonomic function in participants with pectus excavatum before and after Nuss surgery.

Since pectus excavatum can cause cardiac arrhythmia, the cardiac autonomic function in participants with pectus excavatum might be impaired. However, to our knowledge, there is no any study to evaluate the cardiac autonomic function in participants with pectus excavatum.

Inclusion Criteria:

1. Clinical diagnosis of pectus excavatum
2. Agree to receive Nuss surgery to correct pectus excavatum

Exclusion criteria:

1. Major medical disease (asthma, heart failure, renal disease)
2. Known psychiatric disease
3. Known sleep-disordered breathing
4. Skeletal disease
5. Major surgery within 6 months