Vacuum treatment is a treatment, which is described as a non-surgical treatment method for pectus excavatum. It is referred to as vacuum bell treatment. But we call it vacuum treatment in short. To which patient group this treatment must be applied.Which patients are ideal patients...

The patients between the ages of fifteen - sixteen are generally the ideal patient group. Also, the deformity of the patient must be suitable for vacuum treatment. Which patients are not suitable for this treatment...

Vacuum treatment does not work successfully on the upper sternum, which we call pectus arcuatum. You can implemented, but to no avail, it is hard to get a successful results. Because this patient group can be treated with open surgery.

Vacuum treatment yields more success with symmetrical patient group. Surgeries are more successful on patients with symmetrical deformity.

In general, we recommend the patient to wear it once in every morning and evening, and parents should observe the correction of deformity after inflating the balloon three times The method may result with such complications as skin redness, and small bleeding cases Other than these, it does not cause any damage on viscera.

Duration of application is generally prescribed as one hour in the morning, and one hour in the evening. Some patients ask whether longer periods of use could be more beneficial. It is a fact that longer periods of use is better.

However, longer periods of use may also cause skin irritations and subcutaneous hemorrhage. For this reason, we generally recommend limiting the use period to one and a half hour. The method can be applied more than two times a day.

It may be implemented in the morning, in the evening, and if there is time available, for one hour in the afternoon.

What is the ideal time period for vacuum treatment... For how many months or years must it be implemented... We generally see patients at three months internals. Ideally, we should wait for the deformity to be fixed completely. The degree of deformity decreases only with this application. In some patient groups, it disappears completely. If it is diagnosed early...

However, since thoracic wall is very hard in advanced age groups, it is not possible to achieve high rates of treatment success. We use vacuum method also on patient groups, who have a surgical operation. By taking a sterile vacuum bell to the operating room, we use it for lifting thoracic case during operation.