CABRAL JUNIOR, J. M. D.; CABRAL JUNIOR, José Mário Diniz.
Resumo:
Diaphragmatic hernia or also known as pleuroperitoneal hernia occurs when the
interruption of continuity of the diaphragm occurs, thereby the organs located in the
abdominal cavity migrate to the chest cavity. The most common form of diaphragmatic
hernia that occurs in dogs and cats is the traumatic form, whose trauma's cause, in
majority, is the automobile accident. For the diaphragmatic hernia, since it is about
anatomical changes, the recommended treatment is surgical, including suture on the
diaphragm. Although an uncommon occurrence of morbidity, it is endowed of high
mortality rates, usually due to be associated with multiple lesions in other organs. Faced
with increased casuistry of traumatic diaphragmatic hernias in small animals, it was aimed
to conduct a survey from 2008 to 2013 on such occurrences in the Veterinary Hospital of
the Federal University of Campina Grande (HV), in Patos - PB; Whose study revealed the
occurrence of 10 diaphragmatic hernia cases, being nine animals from feline specie and
one from canine specie, with the purpose of outlining the clinical reality of this regarding
its condition; besides classifying, quantifying and indicating the types of diaphragmatic
hernias and their respective treatments. It was reported the case of a feline with 5 months
of age and having congenital diaphragmatic hernia, which entered at the HV at the clinic of
small animals.