TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Plication of the Diaphragm from Below A1 - Rao, Madhuri A1 - Andrade, Rafael A2 - Sugarbaker, David J. A2 - Bueno, Raphael A2 - Burt, Bryan M. A2 - Groth, Shawn S. A2 - Loor, Gabriel A2 - Wolf, Andrea S. A2 - Williams, Marcia A2 - Adams, Ann Y1 - 2020 N1 - T2 - Sugarbaker’s Adult Chest Surgery, 3e AB - The abdominal approach for diaphragmatic plication is appropriate in properly selected patients. Open transabdominal plication has been described for unilateral or bilateral diaphragmatic eventration or paralysis in children,1 but very few data are available on the results of open transabdominal plication in adults. Laparoscopic diaphragm plication was initially described by Hüttl et al. in a report of 3 patients.2 We reported our experience with 25 patients demonstrating that the laparoscopic approach to diaphragm plication results in significant short- and mid-term improvements in symptoms, quality of life, and pulmonary function tests (PFTs) in patients with hemidiaphragm paralysis or eventration.3 SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/03/28 UR - accesssurgery.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1170415937 ER -