BACKGROUND Diaphragmatic hernia is a potential complication of esophagectomy, which usually occurs as a hiatal hernia and more frequently after minimally invasive esophagectomy. Parahiatal hernia is a rare form of diaphragmatic hernia, and to the best of our knowledge, parahiatal hernia after esophagectomy has not been previously reported. Here, we report a case of parahiatal hernia after esoph...

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...

This report discusses a case of 15 years oldyoung boy who surprisingly presented late with huge congenital diaphragmatic hernia having stomach, part colon, small bowel, spleen, tail pancreas and left kidney.

Background and Aim: Congenital or acquired diaphragmatic hernias are both possible. The present study aimed to investigate the superiority of laparoscopic surgery over open repair congenital with bioabsorbable mesh in hernia. Patients Methods: This retrospective was conducted on 7 hernia cases General Surgery Unit Federal Government Polyclinic Hospital, Islamabad from January 2015 December 2022...

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The first description of a hiatus hernia was probably that of Bright (1836), who recorded the autopsy of a girl aged 19 years in whom a large portion of the stomach was in the chest and the cardia was at the level of the fourth dorsal vertebra. In the early part of the present century the condition was thought to be rare; Eppinger's (1911) series of 650 diaphragmatic herniae contained only 11 c...

A diaphragmatic hernia is usually seen in childhood and it is rare in adults. We are reporting a case of a 73 years old male who presented with pain and distension of the abdomen, breathlessness and constipation. He was operated 10 years back for a diaphragmatic hernia, during which a splenectomy, omentectomy and a mesh repair were done. X-rays and CT scans of the chest and the abdomen showed a...

Gastric volvulus is a rare and life-threatening condition that involves the abnormal rotation of the stomach around its axis by more than 180°. The association between acute gastric volvulus and atrial fibrillation with rapid ventricular response is rare with only few cases that have been reported. Our patient was an 86-year-old female who presented with upper abdominal pain, distension, nausea...