A hiatal hernia is when your stomach bulges up into your chest through an opening in your diaphragm, the muscle that separates the two areas. This opening is called the hiatus, so this condition is ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A hiatal hernia occurs when part of the stomach or other abdominal organs pushes through the diaphragm and into the chest cavity, ...

A hernia is when part of your insides bulges through your muscle or other tissues. A hiatal hernia occurs when the top of your stomach or another internal organ pushes through an opening in your ...

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 ...

Hiatal hernias occur when there is a protrusion of the upper portion of the stomach into the thorax through a tear or weakness in the diaphragm. There are two main types of hiatal hernias. A sliding ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Paraesophageal hernia occurs when a portion of the gastric fundus herniates through the diaphragm along the distal esophagus. Why such hernias form is unclear, but they are likely congenital in origin ...