The series on “Minimally Invasive Treatment of Pectus Deformities” is edited by Prof. Erik R. de Loos from Zuyderland medical center (the Netherlands), Prof. Frank-Martin Haecker from University of Basel (Switzerland) and Prof. Jean H.T. Daemen from Zuyderland medical center (the Netherlands).
Erik R. de Loos, MD, PhD
Zuyderland medical center, Heerlen, the Netherlands
Dr. Erik R. de Loos is an expert trauma and general thoracic staff surgeon, and chair of the thoracic surgical training program at Zuyderland Medical Center (Heerlen, the Netherlands). This center serves as a tertiary referral for minimally invasive thoracic surgery and chest wall surgery. Erik is actively involved in numerous national and international courses in the field of minimally invasive thoracic surgery, trauma surgery and chest wall surgery with special interest for the latter. His main research interest and publications focus on the treatment of chest wall deformities and associated innovations. Erik obtained a PhD-degree in improvement of surgical care for pectus excavatum.
Frank-Martin Haecker, MD, PhD
Faculty of Medicine, University of Basel, Switzerland
Prof. dr. Frank-Martin Haecker is a consultant pediatric surgeon at Children's Hospital of Eastern Switzerland (St. Gallen, Switzerland) where he serves as head of the chest wall unit and of the division of pediatric urology. In addition, Frank-Martin is a consultant at Schmerzklinik (Basel, Switzerland), and professor of pediatric surgery at the University of Basel (Basel, Switzerland). Previously he worked as a consultant pediatric surgeon at American Hospital Dubai (Dubai, United Arab Emirates) and is the past president of the Chest Wall International Group. His long-term research project concerns the conservative treatment of chest wall deformities.
Jean H.T. Daemen, MD, PhD-candidate
Zuyderland medical center, Heerlen, the Netherlands
Dr. Jean H.T. Daemen is a surgical resident at Zuyderland Medical Center, Heerlen, the Netherlands. He completed a double master’s degree in both medicine and technical medicine, forming the basis for his interest in health-related technical innovations. His main research interest and publications focus on chest wall deformities with emphasis on the use of three-dimensional imaging being the subject of his PhD thesis.
Introduction of the special series:
Research on thoracic disorders concerns one of the most rapidly developing topics in all of surgery, including pectus deformities. A multitude of advances have made progress to improve outcome for these patients over the two decades. Given that the minimally invasive treatment of pectus deformities is a niche subject with a wide heterogeneity in all its different aspects, the aim of the present series is to provide a comprehensive overview and update of the minimally invasive treatment of pectus deformities by a group of worldwide leading experts.
Series outline:
- Editorial on the minimally invasive treatment of pectus deformities
- Congenital chest wall disorders: introduction and overview
- Current insights in preoperative evaluation of chest wall deformities
- Non-operative treatment of pectus excavatum
- Non-operative treatment of pectus carinatum
- The development of Minimally Invasive repair of Pectus Excavatum (MIRPE): the Nuss procedure
- The development of Minimally Invasive repair of Pectus Carinatum (MIRPC): the Abramson procedure
- Minimally Invasive repair of Pectus Excavatum (MIRPE) in children
- Minimally Invasive repair of Pectus Excavatum (MIRPE) in adolescent
- Minimally Invasive repair of Pectus Excavatum (MIRPE) in adult
- Sandwich procedures for pectus deformities
- Surgical adjuncts during Minimally Invasive Repair of Pectus Excavatum and Carinatum deformities: sternal elevation and depression techniques
- Cryoablation: the new kid on the block for perioperative pain management in pectus surgery
- Complication management after minimally invasive pectus repair
- Pectus bar removal
- Long term outcome after minimally invasive pectus repair
- This is how I do it: redo surgery after minimal invasive pectus repair
- Pectus repair with concomitant procedures or after prior sternotomy
- Novel techniques and future developments in minimally invasive pectus repair
Disclosure:
The special series “Minimally Invasive Treatment of Pectus Deformities” was commissioned by the editorial office, Journal of Thoracic Disease without any funding or sponsorship. Erik R. de Loos, Frank-Martin Haecker and Jean H.T. Daemen are serving as the unpaid Guest Editors for the special series.