[Diaphragmatic hernia, secondary to a phrenic nerve lesion, in a newborn infant]

Bol Med Hosp Infant Mex. 1993 Mar;50(3):191-3.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

The diaphragmatic eventration will be congenital or acquired; the damage to the phrenic nerve its for elongenest, cruch, gun ball or iatrogenic; this last one could be during cardiac surgery, birth trauma, venodissection and colocation of one thorax drill. We presented the case of one premature newborn of 32 weeks with 1374g of weight, with respiratory distress syndrome which evolutioned to bilateral pneumothorax and posteriorly left diaphragmatic eventration secondary to a phrenic nerve damage by the thorax drill which one reach to mediastinum. The diagnosis of these entity will suspect by abnormal elevation of the affected hemidiaphragm and confirmed by fluoroscopy. The treatment its a early diaphragmatic pleat.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Hernia, Diaphragmatic / diagnostic imaging
  • Hernia, Diaphragmatic / etiology*
  • Hernia, Diaphragmatic / therapy
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Male
  • Phrenic Nerve / physiopathology*
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Respiratory Distress Syndrome, Newborn / complications*