[Morgagni's diaphragmatic hernia--case report]

A sucostosternal hernia (type Morgagni) is a rare diaphragmatic anomaly of congenital origin; in that sense are data that from 100 operated on diaphragmatic hernias, only three belong to this type. Although it is known that 20% of patients with congenital diaphragmatic hernia have other congenital anomalies, a coincidence of a Morgagni's hernia with heart anomalies, in available to use (domestic and foreign) references, there has not yet been reported. Besides a Morgagni's hernia, our patient also had an insufficiency of mitral and tricuspidal valves, atrium septum defect (sec.), pulmonary hypertension and Hiss' right branch block. Surgery was successful: the diaphragmatic defect (size: 7 cm. x 3 cm.) repaired, and the complex heart anomalies corrected in an extracorporeal circulation.