Left hemidiaphragmatic eventration in adult patients is rare; the diagnosis is usually made when a chest radiograph is performed to diagnose another condition. It can be detected in routine chest x-rays with a frequency that varies from 1/1400 to 1/32000 in asymptomatic cases [1]. Diaphragmatic eventration is characterized by a considerably thinning hemidiaphragm. During laparoscopic surgery, o...

The SILCS design features, like the contoured shape and patented spring technology, allow for one size of diaphragm to fit most women and overcomes issues that have limited broad use of earlier diaphragms. This means the product could be provided over the counter, and with minimal clinical support where allowed by regulatory approval and service delivery guidelines. This is especially important...

An eighty-five-year-old female lost consciousness after drinking hot water, following coughing. As she was found to be in a deep coma with bradypnea, she was transported to our Level 1 emergency and critical care center. She had hypertension, diabetes mellitus, dementia, cataracts, had undergone gastrectomy for gastric ulcers, cholecystectomy for cholelithiasis and had required admission for po...

Congenital unilateral lower lip palsy is a rare but well-known limited variation of congenital unilateral facial palsy. We report a three-month-old boy with diaphragmatic eventration and isolated lower lip palsy, a combination that to our knowledge, has not been described before. Probable causes of this combination of multiple congenital malformations, in this case, could be due to nonrandom an...

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Incidence Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) refers to a congenital defect in the posterolateral diaphragm at the “foramen of Bochdalek.” It is a relatively common cause of neonatal respiratory distress with an overall incidence between 1:2000 and 1:5000 live births. CDH accounts for about 90% of congenital diaphragmatic defects. Eighty to ninety percent of congenital diaphragmatic hernias o...