Sliding hiatal hernia occurs in the elderly with a symptom complex which differs from that seen in younger persons. A comparison of the symptoms of this disease in 66 older patients with the symptoms in 154 younger patients revealed four categories in the elderly: digestive, anemic, anginal, and pseudoneoplastic. Of these, the digestive-tract abnormality, even though the most common, was the least characteristic and was caused by the associated pathologic lesions rather than by the hiatal hernia itself.
Sliding hiatal hernia in the elderly: a clinical entity.
CAMANDONA, Michele
1981-01-01
Abstract
Sliding hiatal hernia occurs in the elderly with a symptom complex which differs from that seen in younger persons. A comparison of the symptoms of this disease in 66 older patients with the symptoms in 154 younger patients revealed four categories in the elderly: digestive, anemic, anginal, and pseudoneoplastic. Of these, the digestive-tract abnormality, even though the most common, was the least characteristic and was caused by the associated pathologic lesions rather than by the hiatal hernia itself.
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