Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report

We report a case of a 5-month-old female infant who presented with a cardiorespiratory distress and shock. After thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan, a right sided Bochdalek hernia was diagnosed with massive herniation of the abdominal viscera causing mediastinal shift. The girl underwent emergen...

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Autores principales: Demiri, Charikleia, Mouravas, Vasilios, Lambropoulos, Vasilios, Kepertis, Chrysostomos, Anastasiadis, Kleanthis, Spyridakis, Ioannis
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912320
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.150.28044
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author Demiri, Charikleia
Mouravas, Vasilios
Lambropoulos, Vasilios
Kepertis, Chrysostomos
Anastasiadis, Kleanthis
Spyridakis, Ioannis
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description We report a case of a 5-month-old female infant who presented with a cardiorespiratory distress and shock. After thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan, a right sided Bochdalek hernia was diagnosed with massive herniation of the abdominal viscera causing mediastinal shift. The girl underwent emergency laparotomy, which confirmed the right sided diaphragmatic hernia with herniation of small bowel and colon. After reduction of herniated contents, the defect in the diaphragm was closed. The patient had an uneventful post-operative cause. This case demonstrates that an undiagnosed Bochdalek hernia can appear with such a severe, life-threatening and misleading presentation.
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spelling pubmed-80526102021-04-27 Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report Demiri, Charikleia Mouravas, Vasilios Lambropoulos, Vasilios Kepertis, Chrysostomos Anastasiadis, Kleanthis Spyridakis, Ioannis Pan Afr Med J Case Report We report a case of a 5-month-old female infant who presented with a cardiorespiratory distress and shock. After thoracic computed tomography (CT) scan, a right sided Bochdalek hernia was diagnosed with massive herniation of the abdominal viscera causing mediastinal shift. The girl underwent emergency laparotomy, which confirmed the right sided diaphragmatic hernia with herniation of small bowel and colon. After reduction of herniated contents, the defect in the diaphragm was closed. The patient had an uneventful post-operative cause. This case demonstrates that an undiagnosed Bochdalek hernia can appear with such a severe, life-threatening and misleading presentation. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2021-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8052610/ /pubmed/33912320 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.150.28044 Text en Copyright: Charikleia Demiri et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Demiri, Charikleia
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Spyridakis, Ioannis
Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report
title Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report
title_full Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report
title_fullStr Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report
title_short Right sided Bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report
title_sort right sided bochdalek diaphragmatic hernia appeared as a life-threatening event in an infant: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8052610/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33912320
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2021.38.150.28044
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