According to the study, postoperative intra thoracic stomach hiatal hernia repair procedure, between january 2004 and january 2015, eighty-six patients underwent laparoscopic repair for intra thoracic stomach, from which, one patient died during surgery.
Upon medical review; the event of a patient death and its reported severity is not related to the device or therapy because a perforation of the aorta occurred intraoperatively during mobilization of the esophagus, and the damage to the aorta was too extensive and the patient died during surgery.
An autopsy revealed an aneurysm, which was unknown prior to surgery.
The patient's death is not device related.
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