Slipped LINX® Caused by a Short Esophagus or an Intra-Thoracic Sleeve Migration (ITSM) or the Combination of Both?

Dietmar Pixner; Georgio Safi; Abdulellah Niyaz; Tanja Wiesenberg; Mathias Schlensak; Frank Alexander Granderath

doi:10.1007/s11695-021-05529-0

Slipped LINX® Caused by a Short Esophagus or an Intra-Thoracic Sleeve Migration (ITSM) or the Combination of Both?

Obes Surg. 2021 Nov;31(11):5054-5056. doi: 10.1007/s11695-021-05529-0. Epub 2021 Jul 22.

Authors

Dietmar Pixner¹, Georgio Safi², Abdulellah Niyaz², Tanja Wiesenberg², Mathias Schlensak², Frank Alexander Granderath²

Affiliations

¹ Department of visceral surgery, Krankenhaus Neuwerk Maria von den Aposteln, Moenchengladbach, Germany. d.pixner@kh-neuwerk.de.
² Department of visceral surgery, Krankenhaus Neuwerk Maria von den Aposteln, Moenchengladbach, Germany.

PMID: 34296370
DOI: 10.1007/s11695-021-05529-0

No abstract available

Keywords: Body mass index (BMI); Gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD); Hiatal hernia repair (HHR); Intra-thoracic sleeve migration (ITSM); LINX; Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy; Postbariatric surgery; Short esophagus.

Publication types

Letter

MeSH terms

Esophagus / diagnostic imaging
Gastrectomy
Hernia, Hiatal* / surgery
Humans
Laparoscopy*
Obesity, Morbid* / surgery
Retrospective Studies
Treatment Outcome