ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a retrospective study looking back at a decadeof surgeries, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers have determinedthat surgery to remove metastatic disease from the diaphragm, ...

The surgery is carried out through an incision on the abdomen. The gut is pulled down from the chest cavity and the diaphragm repaired. If the hole in the diaphragm is large, there may be a need to ...

A 10-year-old suburban Philadelphia girl who got adult lungs after her parents sued to change national transplant rules is set for more surgery to repair her diaphragm. Sarah Murnaghan is set to have ...

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – The 10-year-old Delaware County girl who had two lung transplants in the last month underwent another surgery Tuesday. Sarah Murnaghan underwent a procedure to repair her ...

Sarah Murnaghan upbeat in new video after diaphragm surgery. July 5, 2013— -- She's not back to singing "Twinkle Twinkle Little Star" just yet, but there's a new video of Sarah Murnaghan awake ...

Medically reviewed by Sanja Jelic, MD Key Takeaways The diaphragm is the main muscle used for breathing. The diaphragm helps ...

A team of doctors at Christian Medical College and Hospital (CMCH) has performed a rare keyhole surgery on a defective diaphragm - the muscle wall between chest and abdomen - on a newborn boy having 2 ...

ATLANTA — Local doctors are making history. They implanted a diaphragm pacemaker into a 14-year-old boy. This is the first time this surgery has been done in Georgia. Now with the new mechanism ...

Eleven-month-old conjoined twins who shared a diaphragm and were connected by the liver have now been separated after undergoing a 10-hour surgery. When Maggie Altobelli, 33, from Chicago, Illinois, ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. -- In a retrospective study looking back at a decade of surgeries, Mayo Clinic Cancer Center researchers have determined that surgery to remove metastatic disease from the diaphragm, ...