Gastro-esophageal reflux disease (GERD) regularly occurs when stomach acid moves up from the stomach into the esophagus. GERD might be associated with chronic asthma symptoms such as coughing and breathlessness. According to several studies on children and adults, GERD is proven to have a close relationship with asthma.  Medication treatment via proton-pump inhibitors (PPIs), such as Omeprazole,...

Sandbu, R. 2001. A Laparoscopic Approach to Gastro-Oesophageal Surgery: Experimental and Epidemiological Studies. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1094. 87 pp. ISBN 91-554-5155-1. The extension of laparoscopic procedures into the chest may induce specific pathophysiologic effects. In pigs, we have demonstrated how devas...

BACKGROUND Since laparoscopy has become a common surgical approach for antireflux surgery, little is known regarding reoperation for failed antireflux surgery. METHODS Records of all patients who underwent reoperation without esophageal resection for symptoms of recurrent gastroesophageal reflux disease or hiatal hernia between July 1, 1995 and April 1, 2004 were reviewed. There were 126 pati...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic fundoplication has become the criterion standard for the surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease. Recently, several patients were referred with recurrent symptoms of gastroesophageal reflux disease or severe dysphagia following previous antireflux surgery for possible laparoscopic reoperation. HYPOTHESIS To determine the safety and efficacy of this proced...

Percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) is an established procedure for biliary obstruction. However, duodenobiliary or jejunobiliary reflux of the intestinal contents through a PTBD catheter sometimes causes recurrent catheter obstruction or cholangitis. A 64-year-old female patient with a history of choledochojejunostomy was referred to our department with acute cholangitis due to c...

BACKGROUND Laparoscopic antireflux surgery is an accepted treatment for persistent gastroesophageal reflux but about 4% of patients will eventually require revision surgery. METHODS We searched The Cochrane Collaboration, Medline, and EMBASE databases, augmented by Google Scholar and PubMed related articles from January 1, 1990, to November 22, 2010. Twenty studies met the inclusion criteria,...

background: one of the most important post-operation problems encountered with hepaticojejunostomy (kasai operation) in patients with biliary atresia is cholangitis. the aim of this study was to evaluate the efficiency of anti-reflux valve in decreasing the incidence of cholangitis after hepaticojejunostomy.   methods: ten dogs were randomly divided into two groups of equal size. in group a rou...