Some muscles get all the glory. Bodybuilders show off their swollen triceps; sprinters flash their sharp-edged calves. But deep inside all of us, a sheet of muscle does heroic work in obscurity. In ...

Listen to an interview about the research on The Scope Radio. (Salt Lake City) – Congenital diaphragmatic hernia (CDH) is not as well known as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis, but like them it ...

The first published evidence linking retinoids with CDH came from the examination of pups born to dams with Vitamin A deficient diets (27–30). Diaphragmatic hernias were present in 25% to 40% of the ...

The University of Delaware’s Jason Gleghorn has received a $1.9 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to investigate pressure in lung development and congenital diaphragmatic hernia ...

Thoma, 37 in 1882, was the first to suggest that most cases of eventration were congenital in origin. In 1916 Bayne-Jones 11 offered considerable evidence in support of this thesis. The principal ...

Comparison of Bilateral and Unilateral Diaphragmatic Paralysis. Panel A shows how normal diaphragmatic contraction results in an outward motion of the abdomen and rib cage (arrows). Panel B shows how ...