THE DIAPHRAGM is a muscular sheet that separates the chest cavity (containing the heart, lungs, esophagus and other organs) from the abdominal cavity (containing the stomach, large and small intestine ...

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 ...

Q: My mother was recently diagnosed with a “sliding hernia.” What is this? A: A “sliding hernia” is a type of hiatal hernia. OK, so what’s a hiatal hernia? A hernia occurs when part of an organ juts ...

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 ...

To continue reading this content, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings and refresh this page. Does the word hernia frighten you? Often, hernias can be ...

In 1959 Bartlett and Jones 4 described 4 patients with the lower esophageal ring operated upon at the Massachusetts General Hospital. In each of these 4 cases a small sliding hiatus hernia was present ...

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 ...

21yr old caucasian male, studying mechanical engineering at Stellenbosch and living in a hostel. Pain started one year ago - sharp pain, just beneath the stermus. When eating normal portions I vomit ...

With sliding or axial hiatal hernia there is thinning and elongation of the phrenoesophageal membrane leading to herniation of the stomach into the posterior mediastinum. As such, there is no ...

Until Pope Pius XII fell ill in 1954, few people had ever heard of hiatal hernia and fewer knew what it was, although surprisingly many must have suffered from it. Nowadays the diagnosis is being made ...

Hiatus Hernia is a common condition in India, affecting both men and women. When a part of the stomach moves upwards into the chest, it causes hiatal hernia. In most cases, the condition has mild ...