What are the symptoms of asphyxiating sternal dysplasia syndrome?

Everyone hopes that their children can live a healthy and safe life. However, life is often filled with disappointments. Some babies are diagnosed with asphyxiating sternal dysplasia syndrome by doctors when they are born. This disease not only causes deformities in children, but may also endanger their lives. So, what are the symptoms of this disease? Is there any way to treat it?

1 ATD is characterized by small thorax, pelvic deformity, limb shortening, and polydactyly.

2 The main clinical manifestations are short ribs, narrow chest, difficulty in breathing and movement, and 20% may be accompanied by polydactyly.

3 In the neonatal and infant period, most patients come to the hospital for respiratory infections. Infants and young children may suffer from breathing difficulties and repeated respiratory infections due to poor chest development, leading to severe pneumonia and death. If they can survive the infant period,

The incidence of respiratory infections in children is reduced due to chest growth, but they may die from chronic renal failure caused by renal fibrosis.

A condition in which the thorax is underdeveloped and cannot support normal breathing movements and lung growth and development. Thoracic deformity often coexists with congenital spinal deformity and directly affects the surgical outcome of congenital spinal deformity. In the past, surgical treatment for young patients with congenital scoliosis and thoracic dysplasia usually focused on bone block with or without internal fixation, while the problem of thoracic and pulmonary dysplasia was often ignored. Campbell et al. first reported TIS in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery (JBJS) in 2003[1]. In the same year, they elaborated on TIS and the vertical expandable prosthetic titanium rib (VEPTR) device at the 39th Annual Meeting of the Scoliosis Research Society (SRS). Nowadays, more and more orthopedic surgeons have begun to pay attention to the improvement of lung function in children with scoliosis, rather than simply pursuing the correction of deformities. VEPTR technology has emerged as the times require.

In fact, this asphyxiating sternal dysplasia syndrome is very rare in normal times, but once it occurs, it will have serious effects on the baby and may even cause death due to kidney failure. Therefore, if your baby has repeated lung infections, you should pay close attention to it. If the doctor diagnoses the disease, you should actively cooperate with the doctor for treatment to minimize the harm of the disease to your child.