Traditionally, hiatal hernias is divided into 2 types: sliding and paraesophageal hernia. In a sliding hiatal hernia, the stomach and the ...NCBISkiptomaincontentSkiptonavigationResourcesHowToAboutNCBIAccesskeysMyNCBISignintoNCBISignOutTryoutPMCLabsandtelluswhatyouthink.LearnMore.JournalListJNeurogastroenterolMotilv.26(1);2020JanPMC6955185JNeurogastroenterolMotil.2020Jan;26(1):4–5.Publishedonline2020Jan30.doi: 10.5056/jnm19227PMCID:PMC6955185PMID:31917912FindOuttheDifferencesbyTypesofHiatalHernia!RaRiChaAuthorinformationArticlenotesCopyrightandLicenseinformationDisclaimerDepartmentofInternalMedicine,GyeongsangNationalUniversityChangwonHospital,GyeongsangNationalUniversityCollegeofMedicine,Changwon,Gyeongsangnam-do,Korea*Correspondence:RaRiCha,MD,DepartmentofInternalMedicine,GyeongsangNationalUniversityChangwonHospital,GyeongsangNationalUniversityCollegeofMedicine,11Samjeongja-ro,Seongsan-gu,Changwon,Gyeongsangnam-do51472,Korea,Tel:+82-55-214-3715,Fax:+82-55-214-3250,E-mail:moc.revan@38irarReceived2019Dec3;Accepted2019Dec8.Copyright©2020TheKoreanSocietyofNeurogastroenterologyandMotilityThisisanOpenAccessarticledistributedunderthetermsoftheCreativeCommonsAttributionNon-CommercialLicense(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0)whichpermitsunrestrictednon-commercialuse,distribution,andreproductioninanymedium,providedtheoriginalworkisproperlycited.Hiatalherniaisastatusthatsomeupperpartofthestomachbulgesupintothethoraxthroughthatopening.1Itisknownashiatalherniaisasymptomatic.However,hiatalherniamayallowgastriccontentstorefluxintothedistalesophagusmoreeasily,iscloselyrelatedwithgastroesophagealrefluxdiseasedevelopmentandaggravation.2Traditionally,hiatalherniasisdividedinto2types:slidingandparaesophagealhernia.Inaslidinghiatalhernia,thestomachandthesectionoftheesophagusthatjoinsthestomachslideupintothechestthroughthehiatus.Thisisthemorecommontypeofhernia.Theparaesophagealherniaislesscommon,butismorecauseforconcern.Theesophagusandstomachstayintheirnormallocations,butpa