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Laparoscopic transhiatal posterior mediastinal esophageal dissection, esophageal advancement and hernia repair in type 4 Hiatus Hernia
N Kuas*, MS Arda*, SŞ Baş**, H İlhan*
*Eskisehir Osmangazi Uiversity, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatric Surgery
**Eskisehir Osmangazi University, Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Reanimation
Hiatus hernia (HH) is a rare and usually congenital entity in children however frequent in adults. It is generally diagnosed incidentally while evaluating the underlying reason of failure to thrive, coughing, recurrent airway infection and vomiting. Type 4 is the rarest type of HH and following repair recurrence is an important issue. And hence we believe that adequate esophagus dissection and advancement could better circumvent the postoperative complication. Therefore, here we present a type 4 HH case that was underwent laparoscopic trans-hiatal posterior mediastinal esophageal dissection, esophageal advancement, hiatus repair and nissen fundoplication.
Case: An 18 months old girl, has referred to our emergency department, owing to detection of suspicious mediastinal mass during investigating the underlying reason of coughing. Her weight was between …… percentile and breath sounds were lessened in the right side of the chest. Her complaints were epigastric tenderness, vomiting and also, increased bowel movement that could be heard from outside. Her chest x-ray has a great suspicion of mediastinal mass and thoracic contrast-enhanced computed tomography conformed that it was a hiatus hernia(HH). She was underwent laparoscopic trans-hiatal posterior mediastinal esophageal dissection, esophageal advancement, hiatus repair and nissen fundoplication. Time to start clear diet on postoperative 3rd day and with time to full feed on postoperative 4th day patient was discharged. She continued to make good progress with resolution of all symptoms during follow up of 6th month and also demonstrated to gain weight.