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General Issues of Hiatal Hernias

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The esophagogastric junction and the esophageal hiatus represent an anatomic unit which functionally resembles the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) [6, 7]. Furthermore, the LES must also be regarded as one functional unit together with the tubular esophagus and the upper esophageal sphincter (UES). Acknowledgment of these functional units seems of crucial importance for hiatal hernia surgery, due to the important effects on esophageal function, i.e., esophageal emptying and antireflux mechanisms.

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  1. Klinik für Allgemein-, Viszeral-, Gefäß und Kinderchirurgie, Zentrum für operative Medizin (ZOM), Oberdürrbacherstraße 6, 97080, Würzburg, Germany

    Burkhard H. A. von Rahden

  2. Norton thoracic institute, Dignity health, Phoenix, AZ, USA

    Sumeet K. Mittal

  3. Department of Surgery, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA

    Ellen Morrow

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  1. Em.Director of Surgical Department, Marienhospital Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

    Reinhard Bittner

  2. Academic Teaching Hospital of Charitè Medical School, Vivantes Hospital, Department of Surgery and Center for Minimally Invasive Surgery, Berlin, Germany

    Ferdinand Köckerling

  3. Department of General Surgery, Creighton University School of Medicine, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Robert J. Fitzgibbons, Jr.

  4. Louisiana State University School of Medicine, Department of Surgery, Our Lady of the Lake Physician Group, Department of Surgery, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA

    Karl A. LeBlanc

  5. Norton Thoracic Institute, Dignity Health, Creighton University School of Medicine (Phoenix campus), Phoenix, Arizona, USA

    Sumeet K. Mittal

  6. Minimal Access, Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery, Max Super Specialty Hospital Saket, New Delhi, India

    Pradeep Chowbey

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von Rahden, B.H.A., Mittal, S.K., Morrow, E. (2018). General Issues of Hiatal Hernias. In: Bittner, R., Köckerling, F., Fitzgibbons, Jr., R., LeBlanc, K., Mittal, S., Chowbey, P. (eds) Laparo-endoscopic Hernia Surgery. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-55493-7_37

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