This is usually done by stitching your diaphragm to itself but sometimes requires a small piece of mesh. Hiatal hernia surgery is often combined with other surgeries to address GERD symptoms, such as ...

The major symptom of a hiatal hernia is acid reflux, which is stomach acid that goes backward into the esophagus.

He reported on a previous surgical intervention due to a hiatal hernia ... repair with a 360° floppy Nissen fundoplication and insertion of a gradually absorbable GORE® BIO-A®-mesh was performed.

Leila Hackett had an umbilical hernia mesh repair in 2013. "Straightaway I could feel the mesh," she said. "It was like somebody scratching you from inside your body, it's so unpleasant and constant.

Up to 170,000 people who have had hernia mesh implants in ... She has since had a repair operation to remove two large pieces of mesh. Jen Coles Jen Coles was active, with lots of hobbies, before ...

a: Before swallow. Clip B marks the position of the squamocolumnar junction 0.4 cm distal to the hiatus and 3.5 cm distal to the anchor point on the vertebral body (V). Clip A is affixed to the ...

I am a 74-year-old woman who is active and healthy. I recently had an endoscopy, and the findings were a hiatal hernia of about 5 centimeters with some ...