Archive for May, 2008

Hiatal hernia and GERD - What’s the connection?

Saturday, May 24th, 2008

The contribution of hiatal hernia to GERD has always been a controversial topic. Opinions keep shifting widely. On one end, physicians virtually equated hiatal hernia with the reflux disease. On the other end, the causal role of hiatal hernia in GERD is completely denied. But still the data collected from various parts of the [...]