In this week's Moves in Medicine, Temple Health doctors look at an uncommon, but very serious condition call diaphragm paralysis. It can easily be repaired, if it is diagnosed in the first place.

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 ...

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, ...

Given 6 Months to Live, 57-Year-Old Woman Gets New Lease on Life With Groundbreaking Procedure SHREWSBURY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The Plastic Surgery Center today announced that a New Jersey medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Doctors have implanted electrodes in Christopher Reeve's diaphragm in an experiment designed to enable the paralyzed actor to breathe on his own, a newspaper reported. The results of the Feb. 28 ...

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, ...