Morgagni hernia is a rare type of congenital diaphragmatic hernia. It accounts for only 3% of all diaphragmatic hernias. The defect is small and hernia being asymptomatic in the majority presents late in adulthood. Obstruction or incarceration in Morgagni hernia is uncommon. We report a rare occurrence of strangulated Morgagni hernia. A 40-year-old gentleman presented to our emergency departmen...

The commonest situation is when the cardia slides through the oesophageal hiatus into the mediastinum (the sliding hernia); less commonly, the gastro-oesophageal junction remains in its correct position with the gastric fundus rolling alongside it through the hernia into the thoracic cavity (the rolling or paraoesophageal hernia) while in some cases the two conditions co-exist. A number of rare...

OBJECTIVE We report a case of primary hypertrophic pyloric stenosis combined with a paraduodenal hernia in a 35-year-old woman. CLINICAL PRESENTATION AND INTERVENTION The patient presented with signs of obstructive ileus. CT of the abdomen revealed a marked dilatation of the stomach and the proximal jejunum as well as a circumferential thickening of the antral-pyloric region with characterist...

This report discusses a case of 15 years oldyoung boy who surprisingly presented late with huge congenital diaphragmatic hernia having stomach, part colon, small bowel, spleen, tail pancreas and left kidney.

The aim of the study was to assess lung function longitudinally after neonatal extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), and to identify any effects of diagnosis and perinatal characteristics. 121 neonatal ECMO-treated children (70 with meconium aspiration syndrome, 20 congenital diaphragmatic hernia and 31 with other diagnoses) performed a total of 191 lung function measurements at 5, 8 and/...

Background: This is a case report regarding a 2051-gram female newborn affected by right-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) presenting with encephalocele in the occipital region. Case report: The newborn was delivered by a 38-year-old mother from Darmian city, a rural district located in South Khorasan province, Iran. Co...

In this report, we present the clinical characteristics and surgical outcomes of three pediatric patients who presented to our clinic with congenital Morgagni hernia were treated laparoscopic surgery using only mesh.

It is usually assumed that lung hernia secondary to congenital absence of ribs is a great rarity. Perasalo and Laustela (1956) describing the latest published case, of a man aged 28 years, could not find any reference to this deformity in the literature and only one of the recently published books on paediatric surgery (Swenson, 1958) mentions the malformation. Perusal of the literature, howeve...

INTRODUCTION Survivors of congenital diaphragmatic hernia have increased with the introduction of new treatment modalities and have been reported to experience ongoing medical morbidity until adulthood. AIM To describe the long-term functional impact of congenital diaphragmatic repair on the survivors of a single institution cohort of newborns over a 14-year period. METHODS The follow up me...

Background and Aim: Congenital or acquired diaphragmatic hernias are both possible. The present study aimed to investigate the superiority of laparoscopic surgery over open repair congenital with bioabsorbable mesh in hernia. Patients Methods: This retrospective was conducted on 7 hernia cases General Surgery Unit Federal Government Polyclinic Hospital, Islamabad from January 2015 December 2022...