"A Multicenter Study Comparing the Clinical Outcomes of the Nuss and Ravitch Procedures for Repair Of Pediatric Pectus Excavatum
Status unconfirmed
Conditions studied: Repair of Pectus Excavatum
In brief
The main goal of the pectus multicenter outcomes study is to document the utility of PEx repair in improving health and quality of life and to test the prevailing belief that the two predominant surgical procedures currently in use for PEx repair are essentially equivalent in terms of long-term outcomes. We believe the uncertainty about the impact of PEx on cardiopulmonary function is due to part to the fact that the previous studies have not measured the physiological parameters mostly likely affected by the defect. A protocol to test this was developed. Thus, we propose to use these measures as well as conventional output of progressive exercise test to examine cardiopulmonary function before and after surgical repair of PEx within the context of the original study.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00236132
- Run by
- Children's Health System, Inc.
- People needed
- 360
- Starts
- 2001-08-01
- Expected to finish
- 2008-12-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2007-10-12
Who can join
Age: 3 and older, up to 21. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: accepted.
Where it is running
- Yale New Haven Children's Hospital — New Haven, Connecticut, United States
- All Children's Hospital — St. Petersburg, Florida, United States
- Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children — Honolulu, Hawaii, United States
- John Hopkins Hospital — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Children's Hospital Boston — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- The Children's Mercy Hospital — Kansas City, Missouri, United States
- Children's Hospital of New York -Presbyterian — New York, New York, United States
- Children's Hospital Medical Center — Cincinnati, Ohio, United States
- Children's Medical Center Dallas — Dallas, Texas, United States
- Childern's Hospital of The King's Daughters — Norfolk, Virginia, United States
- Children's Hospital Of Wisconsin — Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States
- The Hospital for Sick Children — Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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