[Complications in hiatal hernia].

Of 1498 patients suffering of hiatal hernias of the diaphragm 375 were operated on for complicated course of the disease. It was established that in some of the complicated course of the disease the background is the vagal-solar syndrome developing due to traumatization of the branches of vagal nerves and solar structures by the stomach prolapsing into the mediastinum. To control this phenomenon the authors used in 167 patients their original method of surgical correction of hiatal hernias of the diaphragm. The result was favourable in 87.7% of the total number of 375 patients with complicated forms of hiatal hernias of the diaphragm. Lethality--0.8%.