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Right diaphragmatic eventration simulating a congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Department of Neonatology, George Washington University School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia, USA.
We describe an infant with severe eventration of the right diaphragm and pulmonary hypoplasia who presented like a newborn with congenital diaphragmatic hernia complicated by persistent pulmonary hypertension. Surgical correction while on extracorporeal life support was unsuccessful due to attachments of the liver which prevented reduction into the abdominal cavity and our inability to distinguish the true defect from complete agencies of the right hemidiaphragm. At autopsy the pulmonary remnant and the fibrous membrane separating it from the liver were identified.
PMID: 8724727 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]
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Cited by 1 PubMed Central article
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Fog2 is required for normal diaphragm and lung development in mice and humans.
Ackerman KG, Herron BJ, Vargas SO, Huang H, Tevosian SG, Kochilas L, Rao C, Pober BR, Babiuk RP, Epstein JA, et al.
PLoS Genet. 2005 Jul; 1(1):58-65. Epub 2005 Jun 17.
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