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disruption- degeneration of the muscles, reduced muscle bers, increased inammatory cell inltrate, and increased interstitial spaces [9, 10].
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Presentation andEvaluation
Presentation
Patient evaluation begins with a thorough history and physical exam. Many PEH are asymptomatic or have subclinical or unrec­ognized symptoms. Foregut and upper respiratory symptoms pre­dominate, and their frequency will vary by clinical practice. Patients present in their 7th and 8th decades with heartburn (30– 65%), chest pain (19–48%), dysphagia (5–48%), early satiety (7–50%), dyspnea (48%), and cough (14%) [11, 12]. Detailed investigation might identify more insidious symptoms such as avoiding particular foods (14%), decreased meal size (18%), and avoiding an evening meal (10%) [11]. Anemia is often observed among patients undergoing hiatal hernia repair (23–41%), but it is also common among patients in their 7th and 8th decades without a hiatal hernia [1113]. As the proportion of intrathoracic stom­ach increases, there is a stronger association with symptoms of early satiety, anemia, dyspnea, and decreased meal size [11].
Physical exam is commonly nonspecic. However signs of weight loss, respiratory disease, and previous abdominal surgery should be noted. All patients undergoing elective surgery should be assessed for tness and optimized if necessary.
Rarely do patients present with signs and symptoms of acute gastric volvulus, including epigastric pain, dry retching, and inability to pass a nasogastric tube, known as Borchardt’s triad. Hill provides a good description of gastric volvulus with the observation of regurgitation of saliva, substernal chest pain, and complete inability to swallow liquids or solids in addition to Borchardt’s triad [14].
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Evaluation
Radiography
Chest X-ray may reveal a gastric bubble or other hollow viscous above the diaphragm or a nasogastric tube coiled above the dia­phragm but will not provide detailed anatomic information.
Barium esophagram provides more detailed information than chest X-ray regarding the relationship between the GEJ and the diaphragmatic hiatus and can differentiate type II and III hiatal hernias. However, it is less sensitive and specic than endoscopy for the type of PEH [15]. On the other hand, barium esophagram has been shown to be superior to endoscopy in diagnosing type I hiatal hernias in morbidly obese patients [16]. Esophagram can also identify esophageal dilatation (Fig.34.1) or achalasia, nd­ings which will change management and are important since manometry cannot be performed in all patients with PEH [17, 18]. Gastric volvulus (Fig.34.2), esophageal stricture, and esophageal diverticulum (Fig.34.3) and a short esophagus are other ndings possible on esophagram. Gastric volvuli can be organo-axial or mesentero-axial with organo-axial being more common. The
Fig. 34.1 Dilated esophagus in a patient with aperistalsis and a moderate­sized PEH, EGD showing LA D Esophagitis. The patient is a 64-year-old female that underwent a laparoscopic hiatal hernia repair and a partial fundo­plication due to absent motility. She experienced complete relief of GERD symptoms and no post-operative dysphagia
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Fig. 34.2 Organoaxial gastric volvulus on esophagram and appearance on EGD.The patient is a 68-year-old female who presents to the clinic with a longstanding history of worsening chest pain, progressive dysphagia, and reux. She underwent an uncomplicated robotic-assisted paraesophageal her­nia repair with mesh and a Toupet fundoplication with good response
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Fig. 34.3 Large PEH and an epiphrenic diverticulum. The patient is a 57-year-old female with longstanding dysphagia. A laparoscopic PEH repair with a Heller myotomy/Toupet fundoplication was performed. The diverticu­lum was mid esophageal and could not be reached laparoscopically and was not excised. The patient experienced complete resolution of symptoms post­operatively
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organo-axial volvulus appears in a “C” conguration with the greater curvature of the stomach lying superiorly [19].
Computed tomography provides the most detailed anatomic information for hiatal hernias including the position of the GEJ in relation to the diaphragm, the degree of gastric herniation, and the presence of other abdominal organs in the hernia sac. CT scan is utilized selectively if a complicated or a “giant” PEH is suspected or to evaluate for other intraabdominal pathology.
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Endoscopy
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) should be performed pre­operatively in patients with PEH.In patients with PEH, no gastro­esophageal ap valve is present, and the esophageal lumen is wide open and easily visualized (Hill grade IV) [20]. A type III PEH can be distinguished from a type II PEH by observing the squamocolumnar junction 2cm proximal to the crural indentation on the gastric lumen, comparing the relationship of the squamo­columnar junction to the hiatus on retroexion, and assessing whether or not the fundus is herniated alongside the endoscope [21]. EGD can also identify intraluminal pathologies such as esophagitis, Barrett’s esophagus, Cameron’s ulcers, and malig­nancy. Difculty or inability to reach the duodenum in the pres­ence of a large hiatal hernia is diagnostic for a volvulus [1]. Assessment of the size of the hernia on the EGD can be mislead­ing. The best measure of the size of the PEH may be its intraop­erative assessment [22].
Manometry andpH Monitoring
High-resolution manometry (HRM) can help diagnose hiatal her­nias based on the degree of separation between the LES and the crural diaphragm (Fig. 34.4). HRM however does not alter the management of PEH if an esophagram has been performed. Passing the manometry probe beyond the GEJ into the stomach can be challenging in most patients, limiting the data that can be reliably obtained. If the catheter can be advanced, the ndings of abnormal motility and esophagogastric junction (EGJ) outow obstruction are common; however, hiatal hernias have not been
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Fig. 34.4 A 2.7cm hiatal hernia diagnosed on HRM (white arrow) and size conrmed on esophagram. The patient is a 52-year-old female with classic symptoms of GERD and high distal esophageal acid exposure who responded well to a Nissen fundoplication
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shown to be an independent risk factor for esophageal dysmotility [23, 24]. Pre-operative HRM results are not associated with symp­tomatic outcomes after surgery [25]. Those with abnormal manometry results report similar degrees of dysphagia to those with normal manometry results after PEH repair. Omitting manometry does not lead to more dysphagia regardless of whether a total or partial fundoplication is performed [26]. Preoperative dysphagia is usually the best predictor of postoperative dysphagia in these patients. Testing pH is not routinely performed since the problem is anatomic, and it does not change the management.
Treatment
Indications forSurgery
Surgery is indicated for symptomatic PEH. In the last century, elective repair was advocated to prevent acute volvulus. An ana­lytic model, reported in 2002, of a hypothetical cohort of patients with asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic PEH (belching or
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heartburn) compared elective repair to watchful waiting [27, 28]. The model revealed that the mortality of emergent PEH repair was overestimated (5% vs 17% reported in the literature), the annual rate of developing acute symptoms requiring surgery was
1.16%, and the policy of elective repair for patients greater than 65 years old resulted in a reduction of quality adjusted life years (10.78 vs 10.65).
Rarely, a patient will present with acute volvulus, which is a surgical emergency. The principles of treatment include decom­pression of the stomach via a nasogastric tube, intravenous uid resuscitation, reduction of the volvulus, repair of the underlying condition predisposing to the volvulus, and xation of the stom­ach via gastropexy. The patient’s age, frailty, and comorbidities should also be taken into consideration as a majority of cases occur in the elderly population [29]. In frail patients, endoscopy to reduce the volvulus and gastropexy with percutaneous endo­scopic gastrostomy (PEG) may be sufcient [30, 31]. When acute gastric volvulus is secondary to a PEH, as are the majority of cases, the laparoscopic technique has been shown to be safe and feasible and follows the standard technique for PEH repair includ­ing a fundoplication as a point of xation for the stomach [29,
3234] (Fig.34.5).
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Surgical Technique
Minimally invasive repairs of PEH are well established and are associated with decreased intraoperative injury, decreased hospi­tal mortality (0.6% vs 3%), decreased wound healing, bleeding, urinary, septic, respiratory, and cardiac complications, and decreased length of stay (4.2 vs 8.5 days) compared to an open approach [35]. Presently, over 90% of PEH repairs are performed by a minimally invasive approach with an open approach most often reserved for emergent or difcult and re-operative cases [36]. The patient is placed in a split leg position and a ve-trocar approach for a foregut operation is utilized. Basic principles of
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Fig. 34.5 Pre- and post-operative esophagram of a patient with a redo para­esophageal hernia repair. The patient is a 49-year-old female with two prior paraesophageal hernia repairs with mesh/Nissen fundoplication who pre­sented with dysphagia. Pre-op esophagram shows a triangular conguration of the incarcerated proximal stomach. Intraoperatively dense adhesions were found in the mediastinum along with a short esophagus. A paraesophageal hernia repair was performed along with a Collis gastroplasty and conversion to a Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. Post-operative course was complicated by a pulmonary embolism but complete resolution of foregut symptoms
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repair include reduction of hernia contents, complete sac excision, high mobilization of the esophagus to obtain 2–3cm. of intraab­dominal length, tension- free crural approximation with selective mesh reinforcement, and nally the addition of an anti-reux pro­cedure.
Post-Operative Care
Nausea and cough should be prevented aggressively [37]. A liquid diet can be started on the rst post-operative day and should be continued for 1–2 weeks. Routine contrast esophagram in asymp­tomatic patients is not necessary but often performed to assess post-operative anatomy.
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Robot Vs Laparoscopy
While robotic platforms are increasingly being utilized no ran­domized control trials have compared laparoscopic and robotic approaches to PEH repair. Recent large retrospective experiences comparing laparoscopic and robotic PEH repair have been pub­lished with differing conclusions [38, 39]. A group in NewYork reported on PEH repairs for 128 patients, including 84 laparo­scopic and 44 robotic hiatal hernia repairs with no advantage observed in hospital length of stay, 30-day readmission, 30-day reoperation rate, and complication rates [39]. In contrast, a report from Texas included 293 patients, including 151 laparoscopic and 142 robotic hiatal hernia repairs observed reduced mean operative time (158 min, range 132–188, vs 186 min, range 152–232), fewer complications (9[6.3%] vs 29[19.2%]), and shorter length of stay (1.3 vs 1.8 days) for those undergoing robotic surgery [38]. In both studies, the robotic repair groups had higher proportions of patients who were undergoing surgery for recurrent PEH, sug­gesting that surgeons perceive an advantage to the robotic approach in more difcult cases.
Mesh
With recurrence rates ranging from 10–72% after cruroplasty there is a signicant interest in reducing recurrences [40]. Mesh reinforcement of cruroplasty for PEH repair has been investigated in several randomized trials [4042]. Well-designed and con­ducted randomized trials with long-term follow-up and rigorous objective anatomic and symptomatic evaluation did not demon­strate a reduced recurrence rate with mesh reinforcement [4143]. Large, randomized trials reported recurrence rates of 50–54% with mesh and 39.3–59% without mesh in long-term follow-up. Neither group was shown to be signicantly different [41, 42]. Both trials, using validated questionnaires to assess symptoms, found that symptoms were improved in both groups, with the exceptions of higher dysphagia and chest pain scores, greater frequency of diarrhea, and greater likelihood of adopting dietary restrictions among people who received absorbable mesh [42].
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Major complications related to both absorbable and non­absorbable mesh include intraluminal esophageal erosion, hiatal stenosis, dense brosis, and cardiac tamponade [4447]. Even in the absence of major complications, mesh placement can make revisional surgery more difcult and increase the rate of major resections from 4.4% to 30%, especially in cases where mesh was placed at the initial operation [48]. Given a lack of reproducible benet, evidence of worse dysphagia, and numerous reports of major complications related to mesh placement at the hiatus, rou­tine mesh reinforcement of cruroplasty in PEH repair is not sup­ported by the literature. There may be a role for selective mesh placement, but this strategy is not yet dened. Mesh placement should be considered on a case-by-case basis.
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Antireux Procedure
A total or partial fundoplication is routinely performed during PEH repair. Even in the absence of heartburn, most patients with type II PEH have elevated esophageal acid exposure [49, 50]. Patients with PEH report improvement in heartburn symptoms after PEH repair with an antireux procedure. Omitting an antire­ux procedure could put patients at risk for reux esophagitis [51,
52]. Recent reports show good outcomes with the use of magnetic
sphincter augmentation in lieu of a fundoplication in conjunction with PEH repair [53, 54].
Gastropexy
The addition of gastropexy to help reduce the rate of recurrence of PEH has also yielded mixed results. A French group reported a retrospective analysis of PEH repair with and without anterior abdominal wall suture gastropexy [55]. The rate of recurrence was higher among the patients who did not undergo gastropexy (50% vs 10.8%), but the group who did not undergo gastropexy was small (11 patients), follow-up was limited (65.2% of patients were objectively evaluated for recurrence), and the study was not
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randomized. Diaz et al evaluated 116 patients who underwent PEH repair with or without gastropexy with similar recurrence rates [56]. In emergent cases in frail patients, hernia reduction with gastropexy with a gastrostomy tube may be the safest and most appropriate approach.
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Short Esophagus
The importance of mediastinal dissection to obtain adequate esophageal length is well recognized. A subset of patients have a short esophagus despite its existence being controversial and its presence denitively determined only after mediastinal dissection is complete. Some surgeons rarely perform esophageal lengthening procedures while others perform them frequently [18, 19]. If 2–3 cm of intraabdominal esophagus cannot be achieved with mediastinal dissection alone, an esophageal lengthening proce­dure should be performed.
Outcomes
With long-term follow-up, PEH recur at a rate of 50% [40, 41,
57]. Despite the high rate of hernia recurrence, most patients
enjoy an improvement in symptom severity and quality of life. Prior to repair, 30–90% of patients presented with heartburn [11,
12, 58]. After repair, the rates of heartburn decreased to 22.9%,
which was sustained after 5 years of follow-up. Some investiga­tors reported up to 93% of patients enjoying an improvement in heartburn [11, 41, 46]. Others have reported signicant and sus­tained improvement in symptom severity and reux-related qual­ity of life, but liberation from antacid medication is not guaranteed [12, 58]. Other common symptoms associated with PEH, such as dysphagia, regurgitation, early satiety, chest pain, dyspnea, and bloating, also improved after repair [11, 5760]. Resolution of anemia after PEH repair was more common among those with symptomatic anemia and those with esophagogastric erosions or ulcers [13].