Right congenital diaphragmatic hernia associated with a complex heart disease.
A case of right diaphragmatic hernia is presented associated with a complex congenital heart disease (double-outlet right ventricle, transposition of the great arteries and left isomerism) diagnosed prenatally. Despite high-frequency oscillatory ventilation plus nitric oxide and uneventful repair of the hernia, the infant died after 6 days of uncontrolled pulmonary hypertension and severe aortic coarctation that developed postnatally.
Bianchi
Silvia
S
Neonatal Intensive Care Unit, Children's Hospital V. Buzzi, ICP, Milan, Italy. silvia.bianchi72@libero.it
Fesslova
Vlasta
V
Lista
Gianluca
G
Rustico
Mariangela
M
Torricelli
Maurizio
M
Pansini
Luigi
L
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D005865:Gestational Age; D006330:Heart Defects, Congenital / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D065630:Hernias, Diaphragmatic, Congenital; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D016216:Ultrasonography, Prenatal