High-resolution manometry findings with hiatus hernia

Hiatus hernia.

The diaphragm is a sheet of muscle that separates the lungs from the abdomen. When a person takes a deep breath, the dome-shaped diaphragm contracts and flattens. In doing this, the diaphragm pulls air into the lungs. The left diaphragm contains a small hole through which passes the tube-shaped esophagus that carries food and liquid to the stomach. Normally this hole, called a hiatus, is small ...

Upper Endoscopic Findings in Children with Recurrent Abdominal Pain: High Prevalence of Hiatus Hernia

OBJECTIVE Recurrent abdominal pain (RAP) by itself is one of the common reasons in child-aged patients to refer to a clinician. Some of these patients are presented with more serious features, so-called the "red flag". The most important issue in management of RAP is to distinguish the type of it, whether it is functional or organic. In this study we aimed to assess the redundancy of red-flagge...

High-Resolution Manometry for Assessing Hiatal Hernia in a Patient With Severe Reflux Esophagitis

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High resolution manometry – an introduction

Hiatus hernia in childhood.

The first description of a hiatus hernia was probably that of Bright (1836), who recorded the autopsy of a girl aged 19 years in whom a large portion of the stomach was in the chest and the cardia was at the level of the fourth dorsal vertebra. In the early part of the present century the condition was thought to be rare; Eppinger's (1911) series of 650 diaphragmatic herniae contained only 11 c...