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/...

Traumatic abdominal wall hernias are a rare event following blunt trauma. This case report details the course of traumatic left parailiac hernia in an 18-year-old female initially diagnosed on CT imaging. The timing repair such is largely debated, and this patient’s was delayed by significant operative intra-abdominal injuries, recurrent orthopaedic surgeries, infected hematoma at site. Ultimat...

A 2 year old queen cat was presented with clinical signs of shock, dyspnea, tachycardia and vomiting, after being fallen from height. Right lateral plain radiography identified a diaphragmatic hernia with its characteristic radiographic signs. Obligation of proper pre-anaesthetic stabilization, surgical techniques and maintenance of adequate postoperative measures was rewarded with uncomplicate...

A congenital diaphragmatic hernia is very uncommon among adults. primarily acute in onset and it usually identified after trauma. It occurs mostly on the left side. We would like to report a 68-year-old male who presented with 4-day history of intestinal obstruction background change bowel habit for month secondary right hernia. He did not have any Clinical examination revealed distended abdome...

I read with interest the article entitled ‘Intrathoracic gastric perforation: a late complication of an unknown postpartum recurrent hiatal hernia’ by Lococo et al [1]. A 62-year old man was referred to our centre with a case of left-sided traumatic chylothorax for the possibility of a thoracic duct ligation. A left-sided chest tube was draining several hundreds of millilitres of whitish milky ...