Take a deep breath and feel how much your chest expands to allow your lungs to fully inflate inside. Now imagine trying to take the same deep breath in half the space, meeting resistance from your rib cage. You can’t do it. If you are living like this and your lungs cannot fully expand when you need them to, it is not pleasant—and that’s what it’s often like for kittens born with pectus excavatum (PE).
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