title: Morgagni hernia mimicking pneumonia in Down syndrome.
abstract: Down syndrome patients are immunodeficient and commonly suffer from respiratory infections. Two children with Down syndrome were referred for evaluation of recurrent pneumonia accompanied by persistent infiltrate on chest radiographs. In both cases the radiographic abnormalities were actually found to be Morgagni hernia. When a child with Down syndrome has a persistent lower lobe infiltrate on chest radiograph, the possibility of a diaphragmatic defect should be entertained.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatric Respiratory Medicine, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel. picard@szmc.org.il
authors.forename: Elie
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Picard
authors.forename: Alona
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ben Nun
authors.forename: Drora
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Fisher
authors.forename: Shepard
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Schwartz
authors.forename: Meir
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: Shmuel
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Goldberg
mesh_terms: D002675:Child, Preschool; D003951:Diagnostic Errors; D004314:Down Syndrome / Q000150:complications*; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D011014:Pneumonia / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis*