Population
n=1, 76-year-old woman with frequent postprandial syncopal attacks for 2 years caused by a huge hiatal…
Design
Case_report
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May relieve swallow syncope from hiatal hernia compression; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
A huge hiatal hernia can cause swallow syncope by mechanically compressing the left atrium and reducing cardiac output, which can be successfully treated with Nissen's fundoplication.
Maekawa et al. (2002) studied this question.
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