Transternal repair of a giant Morgagni hernia causing cardiac tamponade in a patient with coexisting severe aortic valve stenosis

BACKGROUND: Foramen of Morgagni hernias have traditionally been repaired by laparotomy, lapascopy or even thoracoscopy. However, the trans-sternal approach should be used when these rare hernias coexist with other cardiac surgical diseases. CASE PRESENTATION: We present the case of a 74 year-old sym...

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Autores principales: Nenekidis, Ioannis, Anagnostakou, Vania, Zisis, Charalambos, Prokakis, Christos, Koletsis, Efstratios N, Apostolakis, Efstratios, Dedeilias, Panagiotis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21401951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-30

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3065407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21401951
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-8090-6-30

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