Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery for Late Recurrence of Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is often diagnosed and treated in the perinatal period. Recurrence a known complication that may very rarely occur years after operation. We report here case of patient who had an operation for CDH at birth then recurred adulthood. Given risk complications symptomatology patient, we decided to treat surgically. successfully performed video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) procedure during which reduced closed breach. recurrent nature hernia, reinforce repair with mesh.