AIM We evaluated patients with gastric volvulus secondary to diaphragmatic pathology. MATERIALS AND METHODS Eight patients (5 males and 3 females) presented to the author in a tertiary care center during 1997-2006 were analyzed in terms of age, sex, symptomatology, diagnosis and predisposing factors. OBSERVATIONS Six had an acute presentation and rest had chronic symptomatology. The two pat...

A case of acute gastric volvulus associated with eventration of the diaphragm in a previously well 6 year old child is reported. The child presented with acute abdominal pain, abdominal distension and vomiting. At operation, mesentero-axial type gastric volvulus was found, associated with laxity of the gastro-splenic, gastrohepatic and gastrocolic ligaments and eventration of the left hemidiaph...

The clinical case presented in this article illustrates one of the serious iatrogenic complications Nissen fundoplication: diaphragmatic eventration. A 65-year-old patient was diagnosed with recurrent paraesophageal hiatal hernia. Intraoperatively, it treated as Laparoscopic refundoplication, suturing diaphragm defect performed. discharged satisfactory condition on 5th day.

A term male neonate weighing 2720 gm was born to Gravida 2 lady by normal vaginal route. The immediate post natal period was uneventful. At 12 hrs of life, the baby developed poor feeding and fast breathing and was shifted to NICU. The initial evaluation revealed decrease in air entry on left infraaxillary and infrascapular region. The lab investigation showed features of sepsis. The CXR showed...