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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 ...
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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...
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Paraesophageal (type II) hiatus hernia represents a dis-• tinct anatomic and clinic entity requiring a unique therapeutic strategy, and is differentiated from the more common type I (sliding) hiatus hernia. All symptomatic patients, in the absence of prohibitive • operative risk, should undergo elective repair to prevent life-threatening complications, such as obstruction, strangulation , perfo...
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The symptoms in a group of 80 patients with a pure sliding hiatus hernia were investigated using the pyloric regulation test (Capper, Airth, and Kilby, 1966). It was found that there was a high correlation between the symptoms of heartburn and the reflux of duodenal barium into the stomach.
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Paraesophageal hiatus hernia is rarely seen in the neonatal period. An intrathoracic gastric volvulus complicating such a hernia is rarer. The upper gastrointestinal tract contrast study is diagnostic. Rapid diagnosis and treatment is essential. It avoids lethal complications as gastric dilatation, gangrene and perforation, which in turn may lead to cardiopulmonary arrest.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 1962
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.1.5280.754