Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty in a Patient with Congenital Diaphragmatic Bochdalek Hernia

Abstract

Herniations through the foramen of Bochdalek are very rare diaphragmatic hernias in adults. Even in infants, respiratory distress syndrome manifests as a complication of a disease, it may be asymptomatic until late in life. Although the presenceof atherosclerotic process do not differ from normal, angiographic characteristics of these vessels, such as the orifice configuration, exit angulation, the route of the artery and the location of the stenotic lesions are much more different. We report an extremely rare case of percutaneous treatment of a coronary stenosis in a patient whose heart was displaced to the right side of the chest due to congenital diaphragmatic Bochdalek hernia. (The Me di cal Bul le tin of Ha se ki 2015; 53: 107-9)