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An Uncommon Cause of Dyspnea: Right‐Sided Morgagni Hernia in a 70‐Year‐Old Female

Respirology Case Reports
We report a case of right‐sided Morgagni hernia in an elderly female. Morgagni hernia is a rare congenital defect. In elderly patients, symptoms like recurrent infections, dyspnea, or abdominal pain necessitate urgent evaluation.
Muhammad Husnain Ahmad, Ali Gohar, Asma Farooq, Memoona Anees, Muhammad Zumar Asif   +4 more
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Hernia of Morgagni [PDF]

Thorax, 1973
Paris, F., Tarazona, V., Casillas, M., Blasco, E., Canto, A., Pastor, J., and Acosta, A. (1973). Thorax , 28 , 631-636. Hernia of Morgagni. Nine patients with Margagni9s hernia of the diaphragm are reported, seven of whom have been operated on. Four patients had gastrointestinal symptoms, two respiratory symptoms, and one retrosternal pain; the ...
F, París, V, Tarazona, M, Casillas, E, Blasco, A, Cantó, J, Pastor, A, Acosta   +6 more
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Congenital Morgagni hernia [PDF]

Medical Journal Armed Forces India, 2015
In 1769, Giovanni Battista Morgagni, an Italian anatomist described an anterior retrosternal diaphragmatic defect that occurs between the xiphoid process of the sternum and the costochondral attachments of the diaphragm. It results from failure of muscle tissues to spread over the area during embryologic development and constitutes less than 2% of ...
S S, Jaiswal, A K, Pujahari, Rohit, Mehra, Gagandeep, Singh   +3 more
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Robotic repair of incarcerated morgagni hernia in an adult on the acute care surgery service

Revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Médicas de Córdoba, 2021
Introduction: Morgagni hernia is a relatively uncommon anterior diaphragmatic defect, particularly in adults. We describe the case of a patient who presented with an incarcerated Morgagni hernia and was repaired by an Acute Care Surgery service ...
Robert Cubas, Manuel Garcia, Kaushik Mukherjee   +2 more
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Morgagni hernia presenting as constipation in the postsurgical patient: A case report

International Journal of Abdominal Wall and Hernia Surgery, 2023
In this case report, we discuss an 83-year-old woman who presented to the emergency department with complaints of constipation and progressive abdominal pain 2 days after a right total knee arthroplasty.
Thomas Cartwright, Patherica Charoenmins, Cole Nelson, Josiah Faustino, Shaan Jamil Akhtar   +4 more
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Right-sided Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (Morgagni Hernia)- A Rare Clinical Manifestation in an Adult [PDF]

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research, 2022
Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia (CDH), usually presents in the childhood period. It presents as an idiopathic human malformation. It is a condition, where the organs of the abdomen enter the thorax due to a defect in the diaphragm, that is, herniation ...
Megha Dhirendrakumar Saxena, K Senthil Kumar, R Anantharamakrishnan   +2 more
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Robotic repair of large Morgagni hernia in an adolescent girl

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2019
Introduction: Successful robotic repair of Morgagni hernias has been reported a few times, but in these cases the hernia content was rather minimal or unspecified.
Ward Janssens, Martijn Schoneveld, Mathias Allaeys, Antoine De Backer   +3 more
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Pronounced hyperostosis frontalis interna and co‐occurring lesions in the skull base suggestive of a pituitary tumor in a woman from medieval Germany

International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Volume 33, Issue 6, Page 1095-1100, November/December 2023., 2023
Abstract Hyperostosis frontalis interna (HFI) is an osseous overgrowth characterized by symmetrical, irregular bone apposition on the internal table of the frontal bone, which preferentially occurs in females. In 1719, Morgagni described the condition as one sign of a triad comprising HFI, hirsutism, and obesity (Morgagni's syndrome).
Stefan Flohr, Carsten Witzel, Uwe Kierdorf   +2 more
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Single site laparoscopic repair of a Morgagni hernia in a pediatric patient

Journal of Pediatric Surgery Case Reports, 2019
Anterior diaphragmatic hernias through the foramen of Morgagni are rare accounting for about 3% of surgically treated diaphragmatic hernias. Current management of Morgagni type diaphragmatic hernias involves surgical intervention, which is traditionally ...
Amanda Muñoz, Victoria Pepper, Faraz A. Khan, Andrei Radulescu   +3 more
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Childhood Morgagni hernia: report of two cases

Journal of Pediatric and Neonatal Individualized Medicine, 2017
Morgagni diaphragmatic hernia is a rare congenital anomaly to be seen in the pediatric age group. We are reporting two cases of Morgagni hernia, which presented with non-specific symptoms and posed a diagnostic dilemma.
Kamal Nain Rattan, Jasbir Singh, Poonam Dalal   +2 more
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