Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a common, life-threatening birth defect. Often, CDH occurs with other birth defects (CDH+). In a new study, researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have ...

THE literature is replete with excellent accounts of the clinical aspects and the surgical management of all of the classic types of diaphragmatic hernia. With the excellent contributions of ...

Bochdalek hernia represents the most common form of congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH), arising from a posterolateral defect in the diaphragm due to incomplete embryological formation. Although ...

Listen to an interview about the research on The Scope Radio. (Salt Lake City) – Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is not as well known as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but like them it ...

Diaphragmatic hernia is a not uncommon rupture of the horizontal muscle which separates the heart and lungs from the stomach and intestines. Dr. Philemon Edwards Truesdale of Fall River, Mass. repairs ...

A team of researchers has discovered that a specific gene may play a major role in the development of a life-threatening birth defect called congenital diaphragmatic hernia, or CDH, which affects ...

DEAR DR. ROACH:I was diagnosed with a Bochdalek hernia following a lung CT scan I had for a separate problem. I had had some pretty serious pain a few months earlier, and went to the doctor, but ...

Heavy lifting can be common this time of year. Maybe you recently moved your furniture to make room for a Christmas tree or sifted through a stack of totes and boxes to find all of your holiday ...

Endometriosis is a painful condition in which endometrium-like tissue grows outside the uterus in areas like the ovaries, abdomen, and bowel. Diaphragmatic endometriosis occurs when this tissue grows ...

We conducted a retrospective analysis using the Children's Hospital Neonatal Database during 2010 to 2014. Infants born >34 weeks gestation with CDH admitted at 22 participating regional neonatal ...

WITH the development of safer anesthesia and better surgical technic over the past thirty years the repair of esophageal hiatus hernia has become a well recognized surgical procedure. It is ordinarily ...

Despite the scene in Friends where Joey develops an agonizing hernia, not all hernias are painful. A hiatal hernia, which affects 50 percent of adults over age 50, won’t often directly cause pain. But ...