A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach moves into the chest cavity through the diaphragm. In a 2023 article, researchers said that older adults experience muscle weakness and ...

A hiatal hernia occurs when part of your stomach pushes through an enlarged opening in your diaphragm into your chest. The diaphragm is a parachute-shaped muscle in your chest that helps you breathe.

This leads to symptoms such as acid reflux, heartburn, regurgitation, chronic cough, dysphagia (trouble swallowing), and chest pain. The dietary recommendations for hiatal hernia tend to mirror those ...

Background and Aim: Barrett's esophagus has been associated with the presence of hiatal hernia; however, to date no meta-analysis of the relationship has been performed. We aimed to conduct a ...

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A chest X-ray cannot diagnose asthma but can provide valuable information during a severe attack or when someone is hospitalized with asthma complications. A chest X-ray can also differentiate asthma ...

Atrial fibrillation (AF), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and hiatal hernias are commonly seen in clinical practice. GERD and hiatal hernias have been proposed to be a possible cause of AF.

We use a cheXplain autoencoder architecture to encoder real chest x-ray images for counterfactual image generation ...

Uncomfortable symptoms can include heartburn, upper stomach or chest pain, trouble swallowing ... be combined consecutively with a surgical hiatal hernia repair, in a procedure referred to ...

An inguinal hernia can become stuck, or incarcerated. Without treatment, this can lead to strangulation, causing the tissue inside the hernia to die. An inguinal hernia occurs when part of the ...

Hernias can be an unnerving manifestation of the body’s wear and tear, creating a sudden bulge in the groin or abdomen when part of an internal organ or tissue—such as the intestine—pushes ...