1679 – Riverius recorded the first CDH

1761 – Morgagni desribed tycpes of CDH

1905 – Heidenhain repair CDH

Patient cyanosed and in respiratory distress

Scaphoid abdomen & Barrel chest

CX-RAY : bowel loops in the chest

Mediastinal shift

AbdomenX-RAY : Abdomen-relatively devoid of

gas.

DUODENAL ATRESIA

failure to recanalize the lumen

after the solid phase of

intestinal development in the

4th and 5th wk of gestation

Diagnosis

Imperforate Anus

*abdominal distension

*impairment of

ventilation, apnea

* Bowel ischemia

noticed initially as failure to pass meconium