It primarily affects the right side of the diaphragm. The hiatus is the opening in the diaphragm that allows the esophagus (the tube that runs from your throat to your stomach) to pass through.

In some people, that hole is large enough that part of the stomach can go through the diaphragmatic hiatus and into the chest. This is a hiatal hernia. There’s only so much room in the chest ...

whereas parts of the greater curvature appeared to be incarcerated in the diaphragmatic hiatus. Immediate esophago-gastroscopy showed a kinking-stenosis of the cardia and a stenosis caused by the ...

A hiatal hernia occurs when a small portion of the stomach pushes upward through the diaphragm, a sheetlike muscle that separates the lungs from the abdomen. Usually this doesn't cause any symptoms, ...

Hiatal hernia was diagnosed by the presence of a gastric wall above the diaphragmatic hiatus, which was unaccompanied by underlying longitudinally arrayed vessels, as already described in our ...