Formation, prevention and treatment of post-gastrectomy reflux / 国际外科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Reflux is a common post-gastrectomy complication due to the destruction of physiological antireflux mechanism,which affects patients' post-surgery life quality greatly.It's one of the basic requirements of digestive tract reconstruction to reduce the incidence of post-surgery reflux,and nowadays there are many kinds of anti-reflux surgical methods,which are also hot topics both at home and abroad.The non-surgical anti-reflux treatments are mainly focused on gastrointestinal motility promotion,mucosa protection,acid suppression,and so on.There are still some controversies concerned with which surgical or non-surgical way to choose.It's of great significance to have a deep insight into the associated mechanisms and make a wise decision on the surgical management with proper non-surgical assistance.