title: [Percutaneous gastrostomy: when should antireflux surgery be associated?].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Percutaneus gastrostomy placement is a procedure widely performed in children with failure to thrive or intolerance to oral feeding. At the moment of making the indication, the need of an antir-reflux surgery in the same procedure comes to question. The aim of this study was to analyse which preoperative factors are associated with a higher risk of a posterior fundoplication.
  
  
  METHODS
  We realized a retrospective review of 67 patients divided in 2 groups (cases and controls) in which a percutaneus gastrostomy (PEG) had been made by our service in the period of 1997 to 2008. We compared these two groups: Group A (n=11) - patients with severe gastroesophageal reflux who required a Nissen procedure afterwards; Group B (n=56) - patients who kept without reflux after PEG. We analyzed the different preoperative factors that could have been in association to severe reflux after gastrostomy.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Mean age at the moment of undergoing PEG was 15 months. Mean time of follow up was 3,5 years. Only neurological impairment and documented reflux pregastrostomy were associated with the need of an antirreflux surgery after PEG.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Neurological impairment and documented pregastrosotmy GER could be an indication of concurrent antirreflux surgery at the time of gastrostomy.
authors.affiliation: Hospital Materno Infantil Gregorio Marañón, Madrid. carol.corona@hotmail.com
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Corona
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Cañizo
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Cerda
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Laín
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Fanjul
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Carrera
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Tardáguila
authors.forename: M A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: García-Casillas
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Parente
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Molina
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Matute
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Peláez
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005764:Gastroesophageal Reflux / Q000601:surgery*; D005774:Gastrostomy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D012189:Retrospective Studies