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Compression of the right atrium due to coexistence of diaphragmatic eventration and Chilaiditi's syndrome
P Hountis1, P Ikonomidis, A Stamatelopoulos
1Athens Naval Hospital, Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
We report on a 70-year-old male who was admitted to hospital due to progressive onset of dyspnea and fever. Diagnostic work-up revealed a high diaphragmatic position, compression of the right heart and supraventricular tachycardia. A simultaneous incidental finding was hepatodiaphragmatic colonic interposition (Chilaiditi's syndrome). Diaphragmatic plication through a right thoracotomy with bowel reduction was effective to treat the patient.This is the second reported case in the literature of a simultaneous occurrence of diaphragmatic eventration and Chilaiditi's syndrome.
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