GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX - LAPAROSCOPIC TR EATMENT - FRENCH SURVEY OF 940 CASES

Authors
CHAMPAULT G ALAIN JL GROUSSEAUX D BALIQUE JC BAUMER R BEGIN G BERTHOU JC BERTRAND J BERNARD J BOISSEL P BOKOBZA J BOULEZ J ESPALIEU P CHAMPAULT G BOUTELIER P CHASTAN P CHIOTASSO P LAZORTHES F COLLET D PERISSAT J DELAITRE B DEWATTEVILLE JC GAYRAL F DESCOTTES B DESPLANTEZ J BOUQUET C DOMERGUE J DUBOIS F GAYET B DULUCQ JL DROUARD F ESTOUR E FOURTANIER G GAINANT NA CUBERTAFOND P HELOURY Y HUTEN N KATKHOUDA N MOUIEL J LECALVE JL TREBUCHET M LEDOUAREC P LEROY J FROMONT G MAGDELEINAT P MARESCAUX J MUTTER S MEYER C MOSNIER H NAOURI A TISSOT E PAINEAU J PEILLON J REGAIRAZ R ROOS S SAMAMA G
Citation
G. Champault et al., GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX - LAPAROSCOPIC TR EATMENT - FRENCH SURVEY OF 940 CASES, Annales de chirurgie, 48(2), 1994, pp. 159-164
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Annales de chirurgie → ACNP
ISSN journal
00033944
Volume
48
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
159 - 164
Database
ISI
SICI code
0003-3944(1994)48:2<159:GR-LTE>2.0.ZU;2-T
Abstract
In a French survey including 40 surgical teams, 940 patients with gast ro-oesophageal reflux were treated by laparoscopy (795: 85 % by Nissen or Rossetti fundoplication ; 90 by the Hill procedure. Conversion rat e in to laparotomy was 6.2 %. The rate of intra-operative complication s was 5 %. Overall mortality was 0.1 % and post-operative morbidity al so 5 %. Oesophageal injuries (1.3 %) remain the most important complic ation was especially in inexperienced surgeons in the beginning of tra ining. Mean hospital stay was 5 days. Only one third of patients were reviewed controlled by endoscopy and/or mano-pHmetry with a 3-month fo llow-up. Results are similar to those of << open >> surgery.