Kim Kardashian was diagnosed with a hiatal hernia before undergoing surgery to address her esophagitis.
In Thursday’s preview for next week’s episode of “The Kardashians,” the reality star learns of the latest diagnosis during a doctor’s appointment.
A hiatal hernia occurs when the upper part of the stomach pushes through the diaphragm, the muscle that separates the abdomen from the chest, according to the Mayo Clinic.
The diagnosis marks yet another connection to her late father, Robert Kardashian Sr., who died of esophageal cancer in 2003.
Upon learning she had the condition, Kim tells her doctor, “My dad had that.”
Earlier in Thursday’s episode of “The Kardashians,” Kris Jenner accompanied her daughter to a doctor’s appointment.
Kim explained that she was there to find out whether her esophagitis had improved with medication. Her doctor was also examining her for a possible “pre-cancerous condition.”
During a confessional, Kim said, “I’m hopeful. It is what it is. They’re either going to say, ‘Hey, the irregularities have not gone away [with] the medication, and you need to have a piece of your esophagus removed,’ or they’re going to say, ‘The medication worked, and you don’t need the procedure … just continue on this medication.’
“Obviously, I don’t want surgery, but I’ll do whatever’s necessary,” she added.
Kris, 71, also opened up about how “stressful” the situation has been, particularly because Robert Sr. died just eight weeks following his esophageal cancer diagnosis.
“So of course I’m scared. I don’t want to tell her I’m scared, but it’s very worrisome. We just pray for the best,” she said.
During the episode, which aired at the end of the Oct. 29 installment, Kim also revealed that she had undergone surgery to “cut out … irregularities” in her esophagus.
The SKIMS founder received her esophagitis diagnosis earlier in last week’s episode.
During a confessional, she said she had been “feeling a little off lately” and that her throat had been “killing [her].”
Kim admitted that she hadn’t “[told] too many people about” her symptoms because of her father’s medical history.
“[The diagnosis is] something that really hits home for me. I just don’t really want to go there with my dad having passed away from [esophageal] cancer,” she said. “Hopefully, I can just take medication, and this will go away. But I just don’t know what’s going to happen.”
Kim first revealed her esophagitis diagnosis in September in the trailer for Season 8 of “The Kardashians.”
In the clip, she told someone off-screen, “I have something called esophagitis,” prompting the person to ask, “Didn’t your father … isn’t that what he died of?” Kim replied, “Yeah.”
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