Strangulated diaphragmatic hernia.

Strangulated Morgagni's Hernia: A Rare Diagnosis and Management

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...

A Strangulated Diaphragmatic Hernia of the Stomach

Strangulated Diaphragmatic Hernia- A Rare Cause of Acute Intestinal Obstruction in Adults

Diaphragmatic hernia in the absence of trauma is very rare in adults. The literature describes less than a dozen such cases of right-sided diaphragmatic hernia .We present a rare case of spontaneous right side diaphragmatic hernia in adult patient without any h/o trauma. The Patient presented with acute pain abdomen, distention, vomiting and obstipation. Radiological investigations confirmed ac...

Strangulated diaphragmatic hernia in the neonatal period.

Strangulation of a diaphragmatic hernia was first described by Pare in 1575. It is a rare complication of this type of hernia; Hoffman, Levy, Sole, and Lewitan (1954) could only find 76 cases in the literature and added a case of their own. Most of the earlier instances of strangulation occurred in herniae of traumatic origin, but in recent years there has been a higher proportion in congenital...

Volvulus of the stomach--an unusual cause of pulsus paradoxus.

A patient with a strangulated diaphragmatic hernia presented as an emergency and was noted to have pulsus paradoxus. The mechanism of this physical sign, previously unrecorded in association with an intrathoracic hernia, is discussed.