DEAR DR. ROACH: I am a 74-year-old woman who is active and healthy. I recently had an endoscopy, and the findings were a hiatal hernia of about 5 centimeters with some inflammation. I have been having ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 74-year-old woman who is active and healthy. I recently had an endoscopy, and the findings were a hiatal hernia of about 5 centimeters with some inflammation. I have been having ...

Doctors usually diagnose a hiatal hernia in people trying to determine the cause of their heartburn. A hiatal, or hiatus, hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach pushes through an opening in ...

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A hiatal hernia occurs when part of the stomach bulges upward through the hiatus, a small opening in the diaphragm that allows the oesophagus to connect to the stomach. This displacement causes ...

Background and Aim: Barrett's esophagus has been associated with the presence of hiatal hernia; however, to date no meta-analysis of the relationship has been performed. We aimed to conduct a ...

At a mean follow-up of 13 years among 103 patients, the verified radiologic hiatal hernia recurrence rates were 38% in the mesh reinforcement group compared with 31% in the group who received crural ...