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  • Title: Hiatal Hernia is More Frequent than Expected in Bariatric Patients. Intraoperative Findings during Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
    Author: Hutopila I, Copaescu C.
    Journal: Chirurgia (Bucur); 2019; 114(6):779-789. PubMed ID: 31928584.
    Abstract:
    UNLABELLED: Background: obesity is a risk factor for gastro-esophageal disease (GERD) and hiatal hernia (HH) occurrence. A substantial number of obese patients have HH. Esophago-gastro-duodenoscopy (EGD) and Barium X-ray oral study are used for preoperative gastrointestinal evaluation. Not all HH can be diagnosed before surgery, some are discovered during laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). AIM: to assess the possible correlations between intraoperative presence of hiatal hernia (known or new discovered) and preoperative clinical, radiological and endoscopic data specific for GERD and HH. SETTING: single institution Ponderas Academic Hospital, Center of Excellence in Bariatric and Metabolic Surgery. Material and Methods: The prospectively maintained database of the institution was retrospectively quired to identify all the patients who underwent primary Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) without/with concomitant hiatal hernia (HH) repair between January 2015 to May 2016. Patient characteristics, co-morbidities, GERD symptoms, radiologic oral contrast study, endoscopy and operative details were analyzed. Results: six hundred ninety-five patients (260 male and 435 female) were identified meeting inclusion criteria (LSG +- HH repair). Mean age of patients was 41 +- 11.71years and average body mass index (BMI) was 41.96 +- 7.28 kg/m2. Preoperative upper gastrointestinal contrast series and endoscopy were performed for entire group study and demonstrated a hiatal hernia in 339 patients (48.78%). In all these cases, HH was repaired concomitantly with LSG. One hundred ninety-two patients (56.63%) were diagnosed with HH before operation and confirmed intraoperatively (Group A). The diagnosis of hiatal hernia was established intraoperatively for 147 patients (43.37%) - group B, using the surgical protocol for active identification of preoperative undiagnosed hiatal hernia - SPAIH. CONCLUSION: preoperative investigations such as EGD and barium X-ray oral study are suboptimal in diagnosing HH, therefore, in a significant number of patients, the presence of HH has been established using our surgical protocol - SPAIH. Crura approximation (HHR) concomitantly with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is reproducible, may prevent the HH progression and possible GERD complications in the postoperative period of time.
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