It was later discovered that the 71-year-old had suffered a strangulated hiatus hernia – a medical emergency where a portion of the stomach is trapped in the chest and the blood supply is cut off.

13. -- Dan Patch, the pacer, is dangerously sick at the Fair Grounds here. His trouble is strangulated hernia. Three veterinarians are in attendance. At 9 o'clock this evening they expressed the ...

A coroner has warned about a "lack of understanding" among medics of strangulated hiatus hernia after the condition went undiagnosed in a man who later died. Tom Glover, who was in his early 70s ...

A strangulated hernia is dangerous ... by hernia surgeons include inguinal (groin) hernias, umbilical hernias, ventral hernias, Spigelian hernias, incisional hernias, lumbar hernias, obturator ...