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High School Basketball Player Signs with College after Nuss Surgery
News May 08, 2015 7421
The son of Mitch and Angie Hohlbein was having success — not only at the freshman and JV level his first two seasons — but in the summer with...
Beauty Queen Who Had Pectus Excavatum Gives Back
News April 22, 2015 6027
Sarah Manuel, the reigning Miss Paradise Kauai 2015, knows what children go through when they need to have surgery. “When I was 5 years old, I...
Munster's Wilson Beckman the Post-Tribune's Boys Swimmer of the Year
News Updated December 05, 2016 6259
Bouncing back from trying circumstances is nothing new for Beckman. In eighth grade, he underwent surgery for pectus excavatum, a condition in which a person's breastbone is sunken into...
District champ Vester shows ‘metal’ for swimming
News February 28, 2015 5868
Not every swimmer at the state meet in Canton has had a metal bar in his or her chest. Indian Hill High School senior Sam Vester,...
Wheeling Park Swimmer Mueller Overcoming Odds
News February 26, 2015 6531
Mueller has what's known as pectus excavatum, or the ribs and sternum are growing abnormally inward. This produces a caved-in or sunken appearance of the chest. It can either...
Cardiothoracic surgeon performs unusual surgery on elite athlete
News Updated February 17, 2015 7164
From the time he was about 8 years old, Shahab Maslehati had been well aware that his chest was sunken. It had become more pronounced in adolescence, a time...
Operation to end misery of being born with a caved-in chest
News Updated February 17, 2015 13229
"Indeed, by Ben's early teens he had become a different boy, say his parents. 'The deformity became more noticeable as he grew, making him very self-conscious and meant he...
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