THE literature is replete with excellent accounts of the clinical aspects and the surgical management of all of the classic types of diaphragmatic hernia. With the excellent contributions of ...

As a gastroenterologist, I’ve learned that many patients misunderstand a common finding, the hiatal hernia. There are two basic types of hiatal hernia. Ninety-five percent are of the sliding type, and ...

The Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES) has issued evidence-based guidelines for the diagnosis and management of hiatal hernia. The new recommendations should help ...

February 15, 2012 — High-resolution manometry has a high specificity (95.12%) as well as a high predictive value (91.6%) for type 1 sliding hiatal hernia in patients with gastroesophageal reflux ...

A hiatal hernia occurs when a small portion of the stomach pushes upward through the diaphragm, a sheetlike muscle that separates the lungs from the abdomen. Usually this doesn't cause any symptoms, ...

A hiatal hernia is an enlarged opening in your diaphragm, the dome-shaped muscle that contracts when you breathe. Organs in your belly push through this opening and into your chest. There are two main ...

During this interval there were over 3000 admissions to the Thoracic Surgical Section. Twenty-nine patients, or about 1 per cent, had proved peptic esophagitis. Sixty-two patients with diaphragmatic ...

Patients who suffer from obstructive sleep apnea also tend to have additional gastrointestinal tract conditions, such as gastric reflux and hiatal hernia, which form at the opening in your diaphragm ...

A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of your stomach pushes up through your diaphragm and into your chest region. This can cause symptoms like heartburn, acid reflux, and chest pain. Share on ...

A 3040 gram infant was born at 37 weeks to an 18 year old gravida 1, para 0 mother. The pregnancy was complicated by maternal Marfan syndrome and by abnormal maternal fetal sonogram. The mother had ...