Ascites Worsening Due to a Large Hiatal Hernia Compressing Hepatic Venous Outflow: A Case Report
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Abstract
A hiatal hernia causing or aggravating ascites by compressing the hepatic veins has been rarely reported in adults. We report a patient with a known hiatal hernia who was presented with refractory ascites. Echocardiography and CT examination demonstrated a huge hiatal hernia compressing the right atrium and the inferior vena cava. A right-sided heart catheterization demonstrated a significant pressure gradient between the inferior vena cava and the right atrium. Liver biopsy showed a nodular pattern and congestion without fibrosis. Hernioplasty was performed and an improvement in the rate of the accumulation of ascetic fluid was observed. Three months later and during a follow-up period of 3 years, the ascites was mild and there was no need for any therapeutic paracentesis. The outcome indicates that the huge hiatal hernia, by creating hepatic venous outflow obstruction, was the underlying mechanism for ascites aggravation. J Med Cases. 2014;5(11):573-575 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/jmc1559w
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.002 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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