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    Contributing factors such as weight lifting, strenuous activity, constipation, pregnancy, and tight clothes can lead to hiatal hernia by causing the esophagus to permanently shorten and the gastro-esophageal junction to displace. This displacement allows stomach acid to reflux and regurgitate due to decreased lower esophageal pressure and an incompetent gastro-esophageal sphincter, resulting in inflammation and scarring of the esophagus. The clinical manifestation of these changes is typically heartburn and chest pain.

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    Contributing factors such as weight lifting, strenuous activity, constipation, pregnancy, and tight clothes can lead to hiatal hernia by causing the esophagus to permanently shorten and the gastro-esophageal junction to displace. This displacement allows stomach acid to reflux and regurgitate due to decreased lower esophageal pressure and an incompetent gastro-esophageal sphincter, resulting in inflammation and scarring of the esophagus. The clinical manifestation of these changes is typically heartburn and chest pain.

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    Pa Tho Physiology of Hiatal Hernia

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    Chiskie Faldas Genodia
    Contributing factors such as weight lifting, strenuous activity, constipation, pregnancy, and tight clothes can lead to hiatal hernia by causing the esophagus to permanently shorten and the gastro-esophageal junction to displace. This displacement allows stomach acid to reflux and regurgitate due to decreased lower esophageal pressure and an incompetent gastro-esophageal sphincter, resulting in inflammation and scarring of the esophagus. The clinical manifestation of these changes is typically heartburn and chest pain.

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    Pathophysiology

    Contributing factors:

     Weight lifting
     Strenuous activity
     Constipation
     Pregnancy
     Tightening of clothes around abdomen

    Permanent shortening of the esophagus Gastro-esophageal junction displacement

    Reflux and regurgitation of stomach acid Decrease lower esophageal (LEL) pressure

    Inflammation and scarring of esophagus Incompetent gastro-esophageal sphincter

    Shortening of esophagus Large opening of esophageal hiatus

    Stomach herniates through the hiatus into the chest

    Clinical Manifestation

    (Hearburn, Chestpain)

    Hiatal hernia

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