title: Total duodenal diversion in patients with previous gastric surgery.
abstract: Total duodenal diversion (TDD) was performed in 19 patients with severe post-gastric surgery symptoms. Previous operations were truncal vagotomy associated with pyloroplasty or antrectomy (n = 6), proximal esophagogastrectomy (n = 8) or total gastrectomy (n = 5). Technical adjustments to the standard procedure (truncal vagotomy, antrectomy and gastrojejunal anastomosis using a 70 cm Roux-en-Y loop) were required. There were no postoperative deaths, no anastomotic leakage or anastomotic ulceration. The main symptoms were eliminated, and endoscopic gastritis and esophagitis healed in all patients. Heartburn and bilious vomiting ceased in all patients, but in five out of 14 patients with a residual stomach some symptoms persisted. TDD proved a safe and effective treatment of disabling symptoms following gastric surgery.
authors.affiliation: Université Paris VII, Service de chirurgie digestive, Hôpital Beaujon, Clichy, France.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Perniceni
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Vons
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gayet
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Belghiti
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Fekete
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000713:Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D015390:Gastric Bypass; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011178:Postgastrectomy Syndromes / Q000601:surgery*; D011706:Pyloric Antrum / Q000601:surgery; D014628:Vagotomy