Zeke would require a rare surgery that hadn’t been done before. Removing a piece of bone in a horse’s sternum is risky. After much preparation from the OSU equine specialist team, Zeke’s ...

A heart transplant is surgery to take out a diseased heart and replace it with a donor heart. The doctor will make a cut in the skin over your breastbone (sternum). The cut is called an incision. Then ...

Autumn Bradley, from Guisborough, has pectus excavatum, known as sunken chest syndrome, which causes her ribcage to bend in over at the sternum. Surgery was offered in England but in February 2019 ...

OBJECTIVE: Fractured ribs and sternum are frequent complications of thoracic compression during CPR in adults. This study was conducted to determine whether findings of plain chest radiography ...