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01-10-2020 | Antireflux Surgery | Letter to Editor/LED Reply
Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass After Nissen Fundoplication Preserving Wraps Integrity
Authors:
Pierre Blanc, Christophe Breton, Radwan Kassir
Published in:
Obesity Surgery
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Issue 10/2020
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Excerpt
We thank the authors for this careful reading of our article and their comments. The long-term outcome of a residual gastric fundus remains unknown (gastroesophageal reflux disease [GERD], weight regain). The residual gastric fundus used to perform the valve may result in less weight loss and faster weight regain. The figure 1 in our article [
1] shows that the antireflux valve is voluminous when the small blood vessels are preserved. In practice, it is very likely that the gastric pouch was small (unrecovered operative reports). …