Sliding hiatal hernia in the elderly: a clinical entity.
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.
D000375:Aging; D006548:Hernia, Diaphragmatic / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006551:Hernia, Hiatal / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged