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 hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening in your diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscle that contracts when you breathe. Organs in your belly push through this opening and into your chest. There are two main ...

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 ...

A paraesophageal hernia is a type of hiatal hernia where a significant portion of the stomach (and possibly other organs) bulges through a natural opening in the diaphragm and into the chest cavity.

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, ...