Magnets Tried for Kids’ Chest Repair


	Magnets Tried for Kids’ Chest Repair

BobbyDelray

11-14-2007 11:23 AM

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chest, surgery, magnets, kids, pectus excavatum, richard nave, michael harrison

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/96c1e426-7f84-4540-a49e-6b00c8973bd1/CDEC5D40-6053-4747-A7C3-6E24CC4FE3E6/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/14/magnets-tried-for-kids-chest-repair/" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/14/magnets-tried-for-kids-chest-repair/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.wsj.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/14/magnets-tried-for-kids-chest-repair/"><P>The Health Blog remembers none too fondly having to eat nothing but mush after getting our braces tightened by the orthodontist oh so many years ago. Now imagine getting magnets adjusted to pull your chest out. Sound appealing? Well, compared with surgery to crack the chest open, it just might be a less painful way to go.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/14/magnets-tried-for-kids-chest-repair/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.wsj.com/img/3C6E9C79-66D8-4893-A7C3-D15CB9A53001" alt="null" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/14/magnets-tried-for-kids-chest-repair/"> A teenage boy recently became the first patient to try the new approach to repair a sunken chest, called pectus excavatum in medical lingo. His experience was <A target="blank" href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/11/13/BAONT5JAI.DTL">featured</A> in the San Francisco Chronicle. Pectus excavatum, described in more detail <A target="blank" href="http://www.childrenshospital.org/az/Site2052/mainpageS2052P0.html">here</A>, can arise when children grow up and their sternums and ribs fold in. It’s a problem in about 1 in 800 births.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/14/magnets-tried-for-kids-chest-repair/">A surgeon at <A target="blank" href="http://www.ucsfhealth.org/childrens/health_library/news/2007/02/98556.html">UCSF Children’s Hospital</A> attached a magnet the size of a hockey puck to Richard’s sternum, which is now slowly being pulled outward by a second magnet stuck to a brace the boy wears on his chest.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.wsj.com/health/2007/11/14/magnets-tried-for-kids-chest-repair/">Michael Harrison, told the Chronicle,  “I was doing these brutal surgeries on kids, and I hated it.” </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/CDEC5D40-6053-4747-A7C3-6E24CC4FE3E6/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>