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Potential danger of 'trial of life' approach to congenital diaphragmatic hernia
1Department of Paediatric Surgery, Red Cross Children's War Memorial Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
Journal of Pediatric Surgery
|March 1, 1994
Abstract:
This is the report of a newborn girl who was treated by "trial of life" before surgical repair of her left-sided diaphragmatic hernia. Surgery was performed 60 hours after birth, at which time she was found to have an organo-axial volvulus of the stomach. Her postoperative course was complicated by a jejunal perforation on the fourth postoperative day, necessitating another laparotomy.