A Comparative Analysis between Right and Left Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias

Zouari, Mohamed; Louati, Hamdi; Ben Hamad, Amal; Moalla, Imen; Ben Abdallah, Ahmed Khalil; Ammar, Saloua; Gargouri, Abdeltif; Mhiri, Riadh

doi:10.22038/ijp.2018.30852.2717

A Comparative Analysis between Right and Left Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernias

Authors

Mohamed Zouari ¹

Hamdi Louati ¹

Amal Ben Hamad ²

Imen Moalla ²

Ahmed Khalil Ben Abdallah ¹

Saloua Ammar ¹

Abdeltif Gargouri ²

Riadh Mhiri ¹

¹ Department of Pediatric Surgery, Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia.

² Department of Neonatology, Hedi Chaker Hospital, Sfax, Tunisia.

10.22038/ijp.2018.30852.2717

Abstract

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is a rare congenital anomaly of the diaphragm with an incidence of 1:2000-5000 of live births. This study retrospectively evaluated patients who had been operated on for CDH at our department of Pediatric Surgery between January 2013 and December 2016. The Demographic Data and outcomes of right CDH cases (Group 1) were compared with left CDH cases (Group 2).

Keywords

Children

Congenital diaphragmatic hernia

Tunisia