Background: Bariatric surgery in Chile has seen an exponential increase in recent years, especially in sleeve gastrectomy. Its use is currently discussed in patients suffering from gastroesophageal ...

Hiatal hernia surgery uses minimally invasive techniques to fix a hernia caused by the stomach pushing into the chest. After surgery, you’ll need a liquid diet (avoiding solid foods) for the first two ...

Compared with conventional Western medicine, nonpharmacologic therapies, either alone or combined with other treatments, more effectively increased lower esophageal sphincter pressure and reduced ...

If you have persistent symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), your gastroenterologist may recommend a procedure called transoral incisionless fundoplication (TIF) to reconstruct the valve ...

1) Does the addition of a stomach wrap around the food pipe (oesophagus) reduce the backflow of food and acid from the stomach to the food pipe (regurgitation) when used with keyhole surgery to treat ...

So you're feeling that uncomfortable burning sensation in your chest. Your mouth tastes bitter or sour. The back of your throat is burning. While the occasional heartburn episode usually isn't an ...

An abdominal hernia is when an internal organ, often the intestines or bladder, pokes through the wall of muscle that usually keeps it in. Most are inguinal hernias (occurring in the lower abdominal ...

LITTLE ROCK (KATV) — A cutting-edge procedure at a Little Rock hospital is helping patients with chronic acid reflux get relief. Gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, is one of the most prevalent ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: 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 inflammation. I have been having ...

Dear Dr. Roach: 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 inflammation. I have been having ...