Evaluation of Antireflux Mucosectomy for Severe Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease: Medium-Term Results of a Pilot Study.

Background: Antireflux mucosectomy, a new endoscopic treatment for gastroesophageal reflux disease, consists of endoscopic mucosal resection at the esophagogastric junction. This study aim was to evaluate the medium-term efficacy of the antireflux mucosectomy technique for patients with severe gastroesophageal reflux disease symptoms (proton pump inhibitor treatment-dependent or proton pump inhibitor treatment-resistant gastroesophageal reflux disease).

Methods: Between January 2017 and June 2018, 13 patients with severe gastroesophageal reflux disease without hiatal hernia, with positive pH reflux, were included in this monocentric prospective pilot study.

Stent placement in the management of oesophageal leaks.

Objective: To examine retrospectively the patients of our department who had a self-expandable totally covered metal stent placed for oesophageal leak.

Methods: Patients hospitalised in our department for oesophageal cancer and/or oesophageal perforation between 2004 and 2006. All medical records were retrospectively reviewed.

Long-term observation and functional state of the esophagus after primary repair of spontaneous esophageal rupture.

Background: Long-term outcome of patients treated for a spontaneous esophageal rupture (Boerhaave's syndrome) is seldom reported.

Methods: From 1989 to 2004, 62 esophageal perforations were treated in a single institution. Eighteen patients presented with a spontaneous esophageal rupture.