Laparoscopic Anti-Reflux Surgery
Reflux surgery, also called fundoplication, is a technique to treat gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
GERD
involves inflammation, pain (heartburn), and complications that result when acid refluxes (regurgitates) from the stomach into the oesophagus. Normally, there is a barrier to acid reflux. One part of this barrier is the muscle of the oesophagus called the lower oesophageal sphincter, which closes off the oesophagus from the stomach most of the time. With GERD, the sphincter does not work as it should and allows acid from the stomach to go back up into the oesophagus. During fundoplication, the part of the stomach closest to the oesophagus is gathered, wrapped and sutured (stitched) around the lower end of the oesophagus and the lower oesophageal sphincter. This increases the pressure at the lower end of the oesophagus and so reduces acid reflux. Fundoplication may be done with a laparoscope, a flexible lighted tube with a camera attached, which is inserted through a small incision in the abdominal wall. Other small incisions allow instruments to be inserted. This is usually done under general anaesthetic. Laparoscopy usually means a shorter hospital stay.
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Over 20 years specialised laparoscopic practice and 25 years endoscopy. First NZ surgeon to perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy 1990. . . .
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Current Positions: Consultant, HBP/Upper GI Unit, Auckland City Hospital; Professor of Surgery, University of Auckland; Director, Surgical Research Network . . .
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