Background: Due to the lack of symptoms an enterothorax frequently remains undetected in adults. Most symptomatic patients complain about bowel obstruction and a surgical repair of the diaphragmatic defect, particularly with a mesh, is mandatory.
Methods: This report presents the case of a 72-year-old female patient with a history of an upside-down stomach presenting with a painless jaundice and signs of liver cirrhosis.
Urea cycle defects belong to the most common metabolic disorders with a cumulative incidence of 1:8000. A common trait of urea cycle defects is a disturbed detoxification of ammonia leading to hyperammonemia in the event of a high nitrogen load. Most patients develop symptoms in the neonatal period or in infancy, e.
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