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Gastric rupture associated with diaphragmatic hernia during pregnancy.

Luu TD, Reddy VS, Miller DL, Force SD

Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia 30322, USA. tdluu3@yahoo.com

Diaphragmatic hernia complicating pregnancy rarely occurs, but it is frequently misdiagnosed. A strangulated diaphragmatic hernia in a pregnant patient presents a true surgical emergency, and delay in operative intervention can result in fetal and maternal mortality in as many as 50% of cases. We describe a case report of a pregnant patient and her fetus surviving after a spontaneous gastric rupture from a strangulated diaphragmatic hernia.

Published 25 October 2006 in Ann Thorac Surg, 82(5): 1908-10.
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