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Sleeve gastrectomy often worsens GERD


 

FROM JAMA SURGERY

Modifying surgical technique so that sleeve size and volume are attended to, narrowing of the gastric body or pylorus is avoided, and hiatal hernias are assiduously identified and repaired may reduce the risk of post-LSG GERD, the investigators said.

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