Thoracoscopic two port assisted plication of diaphragma evantration
P Demir*, MS Arda*, SŞ Baş**, H İlhan*
*Eskisehir Osmangazi Uiversity, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery
**Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation
Diaphragm eventration (DE) emerges due to
phrenic nerve injury. It could be iatrogenic usually due to cardiovascular
surgery or congenital in children. The DE could be diagnosed either
incidentally or while evaluating the underlying reason of nausea, vomiting and frequent
respiratory infection. Classically plication was performed by posterolateral
thoracotomy. Due to development in minimal invasive surgery skills, plication
has been switched to thoracoscopic or laparoscopic approach in children also.
However, both have its own disadvantages, such as the single lung ventilation
in thoracoscopy and increased recurrence risk in laparoscopy. In this study, thoracoscopic
two port assisted plication, lassoed suture and suture hanged approach has been
presented. This method provides the advantages of open procedure and eliminates
the single lung ventilation disadvantage of thorcoscopy. Therefore, we prefer
two port thoracoscopic plication.
Case: A 5 months old boy,
has been following up due to Down syndrome, admitted to the hospital, with the
complaint of coughing for two weeks. As there was no symptom release after an adequate
treatment, he was referred to our department due to diaphragm hernia on chest
x-ray. Thoracic competed tomography revealed right sided DE and he was underwent
thoracoscopic two port assisted plication. Postoperative at the same day he
began to feed with breast milk and full feed postoperative 2nd day and
discharged. He did well after a follow up of 3 months.
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