turner syndrome is a sex-chromosome disorder occurring in one out of 2500 female births and characterized by growth retardation, gonadal dysgenesis and cardiovascular anomalies. the 45, xo karyotype is the most frequent type of this disease. herein, we report on a 6-year-old girl with turner syndrome and 45, xo karyotype presenting with short stature. she had dextrocardia and hiatal hernia. to ...

BACKGROUND Familial hiatal hernia has only rarely been documented. AIMS To describe the pattern of inheritance of familial hiatal hernia within an affected family. SUBJECTS Thirty eight members of a family pedigree across five generations. METHODS All family members were interviewed and investigated by barium meal for evidence of a hiatal hernia. RESULTS Twenty three of 38 family member...

We performed this study to evaluate the prevalence of reflux esophagitis and/or hiatal hernia in patients referred to a medical center and to examine the relationship between endoscopic reflux esophagitis and hiatal hernia. The study was carried out in 1,010 patients referred to Yong Dong Severance Hospital for upper gastrointestinal endoscopy because of symptoms related to the gastrointestinal...

PURPOSE: To determine the association of endoscopic degree with GERD and to identify type of findings with roentgenography of hiatal hernia. МATERIALS AND METHODS: We evaluated the 30 patients, who are diagnosed with hiatal hernia at Department of Radiology of Third Central Hospital, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia between years of 2015 to 2016. RESULTS: Our study included 17 female (57.7% ± 9.1) and 13 ...

The esophagus passes through an opening in the diaphragm (i.e. esophageal hiatus) as it courses through the chest to the abdomen eventually ending at the stomach. This opening is usually adequate for passage of the esophagus and nothing else (Fig. 1). However, patients that have a hiatal hernia have an enlarged opening. There are four different types of hiatal hernias described. Giant hiatal he...

Turner syndrome is a sex-chromosome disorder occurring in one out of 2500 female births and characterized by growth retardation, gonadal dysgenesis and cardiovascular anomalies. The 45, XO karyotype is the most frequent type of this disease. Herein, we report on a 6-year-old girl with Turner syndrome and 45, XO karyotype presenting with short stature. She had dextrocardia and hiatal hernia. To ...

OBJECTIVES Several clinical factors; overweight, male gender and increasing age, have been implicated as the etiology of hiatal hernia. Esophageal shortening due to acid perfusion in the lower esophagus has been suggested as the etiological mechanism. However, little is known about the correlation between gastric acidity and sliding hiatus hernia formation. This study examined whether increased...

CONTEXT Hiatal hernia is an infrequent but serious cause of dyspnea. We report a case of acute dyspnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea secondary to hiatal hernia and epicardial fat pad. CASE REPORT A 78-year-old woman presented with dyspnea and paroxysmal nocturnal dyspnea. Lab data and physical examination were normal. Computed tomography scan demonstrated a large hiatal hernia and epicardi...

in this case report, we described a 74-year-old female patient with major complaint of respiratory problemsdyspnea after meal. chest x-ray of the patient revealed a  gianttype iv hiatal hernia. preoperative evaluations of the patient included esophagoscopy, esophageal manometry, barium swallow, and ct-scan. repair of the hernia was performed using a dual mesh on the diaphragm and partial anteri...

Hiatal hernia and Morgagni hernia are sorts of diaphragmatic hernias that are rarely detected on transthoracic echocardiography. Although echocardiographic findings have an important role for differential diagnosis of cardiac masses, we often might overlook diaphragmatic hernia. We report three cases of diaphragmatic hernias having specific features. The first case is huge hiatal hernia that en...