In surgery, your doctor reinforces your hiatus and moves your stomach. Many hiatal hernia surgeries use a method called laparoscopy. Your doctor will make a few small (5 to 10 millimeter) cuts in your belly. They insert a tool called alaparoscopethrough these incisions, and it sends picture...
In a hiatal hernia, the stomach muscles surrounding the hole in the diaphragm bulge upward, allowing the top part of the stomach to protrude through the hiatus. Hiatal hernia can be caused by injury, muscle weakness or intense pressure put on the muscles, such as when lifting heavy objects....
Intraluminal manometry can detect hiatal hernia in the 10% to 15% of cases where symptoms of esophagitis persist and x-rays show no evidence of hiatal hernia.The diagnostic procedure was described in the exhibit which won the annual Hull award presented at the Clinical Convention for the best ...
A hiatal hernia is a condition where part of the stomach pushes up through your diaphragm. Most people don’t even realize they have a hiatal hernia and small hiatal hernias don’t usually cause symptoms. If you have a large hiatal hernia, it can cause stomach acid to back up into the ...
What Is a Hiatal Hernia? A hiatal hernia is when your stomach bulges up into your chest through an opening in your diaphragm, the muscle that separates the two areas. The opening is called the hiatus, so this condition is called a hiatus hernia. ...