Thoracoscopic repair of congenital diaphragmatic hernia: intraoperative ventilation and recurrence

Surgical approaches for neonatal congenital diaphragmatic hernia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

“…There was very serious risk of bias due to inappropriate patient selection, unequal follow-up durations, and the absence of controlling for confounding. Particularly, selection bias cannot to be ignored; patients who underwent ES were selected by their surgeons or according to facility criteria in six of the studies [16][17][18][19][20][21]. Therefore, the ES groups potentially included milder cases, as compared with the OS groups.…”

“…After screening the remaining 38 studies based on their full texts, 14 studies were included in the qualitative synthesis [8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. Furthermore, eight observational studies [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21] published between 2009 and 2013 were included in the quantitative synthesis ( Fig. 1).…”

“…The eight observational studies were included in a quantitative synthesis [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21]. The eight studies included a total of 4698 patients, of whom 288 belonged to ES groups and 4410 belonged to OS groups.…”

Simulation for Pediatric Surgery and Surgical Specialties

“…The role of thoracoscopy and laparoscopy in the neonate is controversial [50] but is being attempted for such diseases as CDH, esophageal atresia with TEF, and congenital intestinal atresias. The description of simulators for these disease entities is limited but evolving.…”

Surgical Management of the Newborn with Congenital Diaphragmatic Hernia

“…Infants that required preopera-tive ECMO have undergone successful repairs with MIS approaches [52,54] . In addition, the need for patch repair does not necessitate conversion to open surgery [52,53,55] . Shah et al [56] reported a successful case of a thoracoscopic patch repair of a right-sided CDH.…”