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Iron deficiency anaemia is a known complication of a large hiatal hernia in adults. It occurs as a result of erosions on the gastric mucosa secondary to traction at the hiatus during respiration and/or gastric acid-related injuries to the mucosa. Even though anaemia occurs as a result of chronic gastrointestinal blood loss, testing for faecal occult blood is often negative and upper gastrointestinal endoscopy normal as the bleeding is intermittent. In children, a hiatus hernia as a rare cause of iron deficiency anaemia and has been de
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