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 ...

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 ...

These hernias concern doctors more than sliding hiatal hernias, even though they still may not cause symptoms. Your esophagus and stomach stay where they should be, but part of your stomach finds its ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...