Table 1.

Previously reported cases of hepatopulmonary fusion

Study	Patients (n)	Sex/age	Associated findings	Outcome at report time
Katz et al. (1998)9	1	Sex not mentioned/ full-term neonate	Right congenital diaphragmatic hernia	Died
Slovis et al. (2000)4	6	Two males and four females/neonates	Five patients had systemic arterial and venous circulation to a fused lung, two had left-sided congenital heart disease, and two had sequestrations	Two patients died Four patients survived
Keller et al. (2003)5	1	Male/full term neonate	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Survived
Robertson et al. (2006)8	1	Male/neonate	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Died
Taide et al. (2010)10	1	Sex not mentioned/ 7 months	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Survived
Gander et al. (2010)6	1	Male/3 months	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Survived
Chandrashekhara et al. (2011)11	1	Male/11 years	Pulmonary sequestration receiving arterial supply from the descending aorta and celiac trunk	Survived
Castle et al. 201112	1	Male/neonate	Right-sided congenital diaphragmatic hernia, duodenal atresia, and an imperforate anus	Survived
Hamilton et al. (2014)13	1	Male/3 months	Anomalous right pulmonary venous return, and azygos continuation of the inferior vena cava	Died
Lin et al. (2012)14	3	Male/8 months Female/6 years Female/neonate	Two patients with diaphragmatic hernia and one with pentalogy of Cantrell	Survived Survived Died before the operation
Saurabh et al. (2013)15	1	Male/neonate	Right-sided diaphragmatic hernia, thumb and index finger syndactyly, and multiple clefts in the vertebrae	Died
Olenik et al. (2014)7	1	Male/neonate	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Survived
Laamiri, et al. (2016)16	1	Male/neonate	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Died
Jain et al. (2017)17	1	Female/2 months	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Died
Takezo et al. (2017)18	1	Female/diagnosed at 33 weeks’ gestation. Operated on at 1 day old	Right diaphragmatic hernia	Not mentioned