Hiatal Hernia

Hiatal Hernia
Transcript

A hiatal hernia is quite different from all of the other abdominal wall hernias in that it involves a loose area or a weakness of the diaphragm, which allows the stomach to actually bulge up into the chest. So that's a completely different entity from all of the other abdominal wall hernias that we typically think about.

Kai Nishi, MD, FACS

Bariatric Surgery

Board Certified bariatric surgeon in Trauma Services and Surgical Intensive Care at Cedars-Sinai
Formerly the Assistant Director of the Cedars-Sinai Center for Minimally Invasive and Weight Loss Surgery
One of the principal investigators of the FDA trials on a new procedure called TOGA (incision-less weight loss surgery), and is one of only a handful of surgeons in the U.S. who have performed this procedure