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Ann Thorac Surg 1998;65:1776-1777
© 1998 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

Case Reports

Large Eventration of Diaphragm in an Elderly Patient Treated With Emergency Plication

Shun-ichi Watanabe, MDa, Shinji Shimokawa, MDa, Mikio Fukueda, MDa, Tamahiro Kinjyo, MDa, Akira Taira, MDa

a Second Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, Kagoshima, Japan

Accepted for publication December 20, 1997.

Address reprint requests to Dr Watanabe, Second Department of Surgery, Kagoshima University Faculty of Medicine, 8-35-1 Sakuragaoka, Kagoshima, 890 Japan

Total eventration of the hemidiaphragm is a rare condition in adults. We report a 75-year-old woman with large eventration of the right diaphragm who required an emergency plication because of acute progressive respiratory distress. The symptom disappeared immediately after operation. Even in asymptomatic elderly patients with eventration, close follow-up is recommended.




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