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Transesophageal two-dimensional echocardiographic identification of hiatal hernia.

Frans EE, Nanda NC, Patel V, Vengala S, Mehmood F, Fonbah WS, Bodiwala K

Division of Cardiovascular Diseases, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35249, USA.

We report a case of a middle-aged woman in whom a transesophageal echocardiogram showed a mass-like lesion posteriorly near the descending thoracic aorta. We were able to make a definitive diagnosis of this mass as a hiatal hernia because of a thick inner lining measuring 6-9 mm in thickness similar to the stomach mucosa, and the presence of a few microbubbles within the mass. In addition, the microbubbles increased considerably after 10 cc of agitated normal saline flush via a nasogastric tube.

Published 21 June 2005 in Echocardiography, 22(6): 533-5.
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