WITH the development of safer anesthesia and better surgical technic over the past thirty years the repair of esophageal hiatus hernia has become a well recognized surgical procedure. It is ...

Current guidelines recommend repair surgery for all large paraesophageal hernias in people younger than 60 years. A 2020 study reports that 96.4% of over 17,000 hiatal hernia repairs in a registry ...

Hernias occur when an organ or tissue pushes through the barriers that normally contain it in the body, such as connective ...

During the past five years repair has been done almost ... it becomes evident that the surgical treatment of esophageal hiatus hernia is actually reserved for cases in which certain complications ...

Levita Magnetics, a company in the forefront of surgical innovation, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted 510(k) clearance for the use of its Magnetic Surgical ...

With a hiatal hernia, part of the stomach bulges ... If it doesn't have symptoms, it may not need treatment at all. A surgical hernia repair involves pushing the bulge back inside the body part ...

Levita Magnetics announced today that it received expanded FDA 510(k) clearance for its MARS (magnetic-assisted robotic ...

Hiatal hernias are most common in pregnant women and ... A mesh patch is used to strengthen the repair. Laparoscopic hernia surgery can be done with general anesthesia. Most people that have hernia ...

For example, painful hernias will typically need surgical repair. Below ... Common types of hernias include: Hiatal hernia: another common type of hernia is caused by a widening of the opening ...

This is the most common form of hernia and occurs in the groin area. Your chances of getting this type of hernia go up with ...

I recently had an endoscopy, and the findings were a hiatal hernia of about 5 centimeters ... future acid problems with Pepcid or get surgery for the hernia. At my regular medical visits, my ...

A hiatal hernia can eventually lead to acid reflux ... one to insert a laparoscope (a tube-shaped camera), and the other to use surgical tools to repair the hernia. Robotic hernia surgery ...