Postoperative evaluation after correction of oesophageal hiatus hernia

This is mainly a postoperative study of 33 male and female patients operated on for oesophageal hiatus hernia with the same technique, at the same hospital, by four different surgeons over a 5-year period. All the patients were followed up for a mean period of 2.8 years (range 11 months to 4 years 11 months). The patients were personally interviewed about the clinical (subjective) results of the operation and the outcome is compared with pre-operative symptoms. All underwent postoperative radiological examination with barium meal and the results are given. Further investigations on all available patients, who still had symptoms postoperatively, were carried out by oesophagogastroscopy, pH oesophageal reflux and acid perfusion tests. The result of these investigations are presented, evaluated and compared with clinical symptoms.