What are the mechanisms, diagnosis, and treatment options for gastroesophageal reflux disease following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy?
GERD is a frequent complication after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy, requiring careful preoperative patient selection and potentially specific postoperative medical or endoscopic management.
This article focuses on the most effective and reliable method of obesity treatment — bariatric surgery. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is one of the most popular methods, due to which patients eat less food, thanks to a decrease in stomach volume as well as some humoral mechanisms. The most common complication of laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is gastroesophageal reflux disease. In this article, the authors offer a literature review, which presents data on the etiology, pathogenetic mechanisms, as well as modern and advanced methods of diagnosis and treatment of gastroesophageal reflux disease after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
Melnikov et al. (Thu,) studied this question.