THE DIAPHRAGM is a muscular sheet that separates the chest cavity (containing the heart, lungs, esophagus and other organs) from the abdominal cavity (containing the stomach, large and small intestine ...

You may be suffering from heartburn, chest pain, shortness of breath, belching, etc and pay little heed to it. However, things may get severe as it may indicate an underlying health condition called a ...

THE literature is replete with excellent accounts of the clinical aspects and the surgical management of all of the classic types of diaphragmatic hernia. With the excellent contributions of ...

A hernia hiatus occurs when the part of the stomach starts to squeeze through the diaphragm and then into the chest. The diaphragm is a thin sheet of muscles that is responsible for separating the ...

Q: My mother was recently diagnosed with a “sliding hernia.” What is this? A: A “sliding hernia” is a type of hiatal hernia. OK, so what’s a hiatal hernia? A hernia occurs when part of an organ juts ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I am 80 years old, still work full-time and have generally good health, except for adult-onset asthma. Advair 250/50 was prescribed for me over 10 years ago, and I’ve been taking it ...

Hiatal hernias occur when there is a protrusion of the upper portion of the stomach into the thorax through a tear or weakness in the diaphragm. There are two main types of hiatal hernias. A sliding ...

During this interval there were over 3000 admissions to the Thoracic Surgical Section. Twenty-nine patients, or about 1 per cent, had proved peptic esophagitis. Sixty-two patients with diaphragmatic ...