Treatment for children with early onset scoliosis. On Friday, 5 December join experts from Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital of NewYork-Presbyterian to be treated for a live webcast panel discussion on VEPTR and growing rods to early onset scoliosis. Look at www. OR-Live. com patients with early onset scoliosis, a severe, complex spinal deformity and distortion that reduces the volume of the thorax. This deformity inhibits the growth of alveoli and pulmonary arterioles during the critical lung maturation period between birth and the age of eight. The resulting condition, thoracic insufficiency syndrome (TIS), a life-threatening condition, that the respiratory function and increases morbidity represent compromises. It can also lead to a significant increase in mortality in affected individuals.