Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare birth defect, with a poor prognosis. We describe a case of bilateral CDH discovered while repairing the right sided CDH. Diaphragmatic defect was repaired and a silo was applied on the abdominal wound to avoid abdominal compartment syndrome....

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Main Authors: Dhua, Anjan kumar, Aggarwal, Satish K, Mathur, NB, Sethi, GR
Format: Online
Language:English
Published: EL-MED-Pub 2012
Online Access:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3468339/
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spelling pubmed-34683392012-10-11 Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia Dhua, Anjan kumar Aggarwal, Satish K Mathur, NB Sethi, GR Case Report Bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare birth defect, with a poor prognosis. We describe a case of bilateral CDH discovered while repairing the right sided CDH. Diaphragmatic defect was repaired and a silo was applied on the abdominal wound to avoid abdominal compartment syndrome. The patient however died postoperatively due to severe pulmonary hypertension. EL-MED-Pub 2012-09-01 /pmc/articles/PMC3468339/ /pubmed/23061036 Text en Copyright © 2012 Dhua et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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author Dhua, Anjan kumar
Aggarwal, Satish K
Mathur, NB
Sethi, GR
spellingShingle Dhua, Anjan kumar
Aggarwal, Satish K
Mathur, NB
Sethi, GR
Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
author_facet Dhua, Anjan kumar
Aggarwal, Satish K
Mathur, NB
Sethi, GR
author_sort Dhua, Anjan kumar
title Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
title_short Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
title_full Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
title_fullStr Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
title_full_unstemmed Bilateral Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia
title_sort bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia
description Bilateral congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare birth defect, with a poor prognosis. We describe a case of bilateral CDH discovered while repairing the right sided CDH. Diaphragmatic defect was repaired and a silo was applied on the abdominal wound to avoid abdominal compartment syndrome. The patient however died postoperatively due to severe pulmonary hypertension.
publisher EL-MED-Pub
publishDate 2012
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3468339/
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