Relationship of hiatal hernia to endoscopically proved reflux esophagitis.

Digestive diseases and sciences ·Vol. 24 ·No. 4 ·1979-04-00 ·Pages 311-3

Wright RA, Hurwitz AL

Abstract

The relationship between reflux esophagitis and hiatal hernia was studied using fiberoptic endoscopy. Of 293 patients having upper-gastrointestinal endoscopy during an 18-month period, 64 (22%) had a hiatal hernia and 38 (13%) had esophagitis. Half the patients with a hiatal hernia had esophagitis, whereas the vast majority (84%) of patients with esophagitis had a concomitant hiatal hernia. The association between esophagitis and hiatal hernia was highly significant (P less than 0.0001). There was no statistically significant association between the size of the hiatal hernia and the degree of esophagitis on endoscopy. A permissive role of hiatal hernia in the genesis of reflux esophagitis is suggested.

MeSH Terms

Endoscopy Esophagitis, Peptic/diagnosis,etiology,physiopathology Esophagogastric Junction/physiopathology Fiber Optic Technology Hernia, Diaphragmatic/complications Hernia, Hiatal/complications,physiopathology Humans

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Wright R A

Hurwitz A L

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Article Info

Journal

Digestive diseases and sciences

Abbr.

Dig Dis Sci

ISSN

0163-2116

DOI

10.1007/BF01296546

Published

1979-04-00

Pages

311-3

Language

English

Region

United States

NLM ID

7902782

Subset

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PubMed source DOI: 10.1007/BF01296546 View journal details

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