Robotic Transthoracic Primary Repair of a Diaphragmatic Hernia and Reduction of an Intrathoracic Liver

Innovations (Phila). 2018 Jan/Feb;13(1):54-55. doi: 10.1097/IMI.0000000000000455.

Abstract

This case involves a 70-year-old woman who presented after a low-speed motor vehicle collision with a traumatic right hemidiaphragm rupture and herniation of the liver into the right chest. She was brought to the operating room for a robotic-assisted minimally invasive transthoracic repair of this hernia with diaphragm plication. The case and video described in this report highlight the utility of the robotic platform in performing a transthoracic diaphragm repair and plication after a right-sided traumatic diaphragm rupture in a patient without concomitant abdominal injuries.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Video-Audio Media

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Diaphragm / injuries*
  • Diaphragm / pathology
  • Female
  • Hernia / etiology
  • Hernia, Diaphragmatic / etiology
  • Hernia, Diaphragmatic / surgery*
  • Hernia, Hiatal / etiology
  • Hernia, Hiatal / surgery*
  • Herniorrhaphy / instrumentation*
  • Herniorrhaphy / methods
  • Humans
  • Liver / pathology*
  • Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Robotic Surgical Procedures / instrumentation*
  • Robotic Surgical Procedures / methods
  • Rupture / complications
  • Rupture / surgery*
  • Treatment Outcome