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  • Title: Bile reflux gastritis and esophagitis.
    Author: De Rose G, Duff JH.
    Journal: Can J Surg; 1980 Mar; 23(2):190-1, 194. PubMed ID: 7363184.
    Abstract:
    The authors reviewed 39 patients in whom bile reflux gastritis and esophagitis were diagnosed and treated. All had epigastric pain not relieved by antacids, 26 had heart burn, 13 dysphagia and 7 hematemesis. On endoscopic examination, all had reflux of bile into the stomach with gastritis, 14 had bile in the esophagus and 21 had esophagitis. Results of biopsy in 15 patients were consistent with gastritis or esophagitis. All but one patient had a history of peptic ulcer disease-gastric or duodenal-and 35 had undergone 48 gastric operationns. Treatment was medical but those refractory to medical management underwent operation. A Roux-en-Y diversion of bile was the most successful operative treatment, benefiting 9 of 12 patients. An adequate length of the efferent limb was found to be important as two patients were not improved until this length was increased to 45 cm. Successful treatment depends on the ability to distinguish this syndrome from recurrent acid peptic disease and esophageal reflux due to sphincteric incompetence.
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