title: [Initial results with laparoscopic fundoplication].
abstract: 17 patients underwent laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease not responding to medical treatment. Conversion to laparotomy was necessarily due to large paraesophageal hiatus hernia (3) or severe peri-esophagitis (1) in 4 patients. There was no perioperative morbidity or mortality. At 3 months all patients were symptom-free. Esophageal manometry revealed a rise in mean lower esophageal sphincter pressure from 4 mm Hg preoperatively to 11 mm Hg postoperatively, and lengthening of the high pressure zone from 2.3 to 3.3 cm. One patient needed reoperation one year after fundoplication due to wrap disruption with recurrent reflux disease. Laparoscopic fundoplication involves low perioperative morbidity and shortens the postoperative recovery time in selected patients.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004941:Esophagitis / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D004947:Esophagus / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005748:Gastric Fundus / Q000601:surgery*; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery*; D006551:Hernia, Hiatal / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D007813:Laparotomy; D008297:Male; D008365:Manometry; D008875:Middle Aged; D011312:Pressure
vernacular_title: Erste Erfahrungen mit der laparoskopischen Fundoplicatio.