Hiatal hernia diagnosis prospectively assessed in obese patients before bariatric surgery: accuracy of high-resolution manometry taking intraoperative diagnosis as reference standard.
Antonella SantonicolaLuigi AngrisaniAntonio VitielloSalvatore ToloneNigel John TrudgillCarolina CiacciPaola IovinoPublished in: Surgical endoscopy (2019)
HRM has a high accuracy of HH detection in morbidly obese patients assuming an intraoperative diagnosis as reference standard. It could therefore be a very useful tool in the preoperative work-up of obese patients undergoing bariatric surgery.