A 20‐Year Follow‐up of Children with a Partial Thoracic Stomach (Hiatal Hernia)*

Abstract

Carre, I., Astley, R. and Langmead‐Smith, Rhoda (1976). Aust. paediat. J., 12, 92–94. A 20‐year follow‐up of children with a partial thoracic stomach (hiatal hernia). A preliminary report is presented of a long‐term prospective study undertaken to ascertain the prognosis of children with a partial thoracic stomach (hiatal hernia) beyond childhood. This survey relates to 94 children who were originally studied by two of the authors (I.C. & R.A.) during 1950–1955. These patients had either received no specific treatment or had been managed conservatively by postural therapy. Although over 90% were free of symptoms, about one half still had a well defined intrathoracic gastric loculus on fluoroscopic examination.

Findings on Barium Swallow in Younger Siblings of Children with Hiatal Hernia (Partial Thoracic Stomach)

“…This would give a grand total of 40 siblings with HH-an overall incidence of 10%. This frequency is 20 times greater than the estimated childhood population incidence of 0.5% (1).…”