Table 1 Summary of chest and cardiac dimensions and indices
From: Cardiovascular magnetic resonance in patients with pectus excavatum compared with normal controls
Pectus patients | Healthy Subjects | ||
|---|---|---|---|
Mean ± SD | Mean ± SD | P-value | |
Age (year) | 24.3 ± 13.3 | 24.1 ± 3.8 | 0.770 |
Height (meter) | 1.8 ± 0.1 | 1.7 ± 0.07 | 0.253 |
Weight (Kg) | 67.1 ± 11.7 | 72.2 ± 14 | 0.054 |
BSA | 1.8 ± 0.2 | 1.9 ± 0.2 | 0.055 |
Chest Diameters and Indices | |||
Minimum sterno-spinal distance (cm) | 3.6 ± 1.7 | 9.1 ± 1.6 | < 0.001 |
Maximum transverse diameter (cm) | 26.4 ± 2.1 | 25.1 ± 2.0 | 0.057 |
Chest Index/Pectus Severity Index (PSI) | 9.3 ± 5.0 | 2.8 ± 0.4 | < 0.001 |
Right chest maximum AP diameter (cm) | 12.2 ± 1.6 | 14.5 ± 1.7 | < 0.001 |
Left chest maximum AP diameter (cm) | 12.6 ± 1.6 | 14.2 ± 2.0 | 0.003 |
Right chest flatness | 2.2 ± 0.2 | 1.7 ± 0.2 | < 0.001 |
Left chest flatness | 2.1 ± 0.2 | 1.8 ± 0.2 | < 0.001 |
Coronal maximum transverse diameter (cm) | 25.7 ± 3.2 | 24.3 ± 1.0 | 0.072 |
Coronal maximum diameter of the heart (cm) | 14.4 ± 2.3 | 12.8 ± 1.4 | < 0.001 |
Cardio-Thoracic Ratio (Cardiac Flatness) | 0.6 ± 0.3 | 0.5 ± 0.04 | 0.154 |
Cardiac Shift | |||
Right Border of heart to midline (cm) | 2.7 ± 2.1 | 4.3 ± 0.7 | < 0.001 |
Left Border of heart to midline (cm) | 11.6 ± 1.6 | 8.1 ± 1.3 | < 0.001 |
Cardiac Left Lateral Shift (%) | 83.9 ± 13.6 | 65.2 ± 5.8 | < 0.001 |