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Case Reports
. 2006 Jan-Mar;10(1):86-9.

Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: an alternative for recurrent paraesophageal hernias in obese patients

Federico Cuenca-Abente  1 , Juan D Parra, Brant K Oelschlager
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Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy: an alternative for recurrent paraesophageal hernias in obese patients

Federico Cuenca-Abente et al. JSLS. 2006 Jan-Mar.

Abstract

Background: Recurrent paraesophageal hernias in obese patients are technically challenging and have a high recurrence rate. We sought to develop an alternative to the traditional approaches for this problem. This article describes the use of a sleeve gastrectomy in an obese patient with a large recurrent paraesophageal hernia.

Case report: A morbidly obese 70-year-old woman presented with a 1-year history of chest pain, cough, dysphagia, and dyspnea. She had undergone an open paraesophageal hernia repair 8 years earlier. Diagnostic workup revealed a recurrent large paraesophageal hernia. Laparoscopically, we took down all adhesions, excised the hernia sac, reduced the stomach and distal esophagus into the abdomen, and closed the hiatus. We then resected the greater curvature and fundus of the stomach, leaving the lesser curve in a sleeve configuration. Eighteen months after the operation, the patient's chest pain, cough, dyspnea, and dysphagia were resolved. In addition, she has lost 57 pounds (255 to 198).

Conclusion: A sleeve gastrectomy is a potentially useful alternative to fundoplication or gastropexy, or both of these, in the treatment of obese patients with complex paraesophageal hernias.

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Figure 1.
Upper gastrointestinal tract with a large recurrent paraesophageal hernia.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
Schematic representation of the sleeve gastrectomy.
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Figure 3.
Postoperative upper gastrointestinal tract after the sleeve gastrectomy.
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