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Thoracoscopic two port assisted plication of diaphragma evantration
Pınar Demir 1, Mehmet Surhan Arda 1, Sema Şanal Baş 2, Hüseyin İlhan 1
1 Eskisehir Osmangazi Uiversity, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery
2 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.