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Oesophagogastric reconnection is possible.
Pediatric Surgery International 2014 May
INTRODUCTION: The first oesophagogastric dissociation was described by Bianchi in 1997 for the treatment of severe gastro-oesophageal reflux (GOR) in neurological patients to avoid serious respiratory complications. The dissociation leads to malabsorption and growth problems. We describe the first two cases of oesophagogastric reconnection long after lung growth.
PATIENTS: Case no. 1 was a 12.7-year-old child with a history of type I oesophageal atresia. He required oesophagocoloplasty and gastric dissociation by the Bianchi procedure at the age of 3 months. He has oesophagogastric reconnection at 11 years old because he had a several macrocytic anaemia. Case no. 2 was also a 12-year-old boy, with an unlabelled multiple malformation syndrome with type I oesophageal atresia. He had an oesophagocoloplasty with gastric dissociation at the age of 3 months to protect his lungs. The reconnection was proposed at 10 years old because he developed multiple nutritional deficiencies and growth retardation.
RESULTS: The two cases have no clinical symptom of reflux and their post-operative digestive contrasts are normal. Reconnection appears possible with or without preserving the Roux-en-Y loop. It improves absorption and corrects any vitamin deficiencies, allows the reconnected stomach to be monitored in terms of reflux and malignancy and enables enteral nutrition supplementation to be stopped. The possibility of reconnection after the Bianchi procedure therefore extends its indications, mostly in the case of oesophageal atresia complicated by severe GOR with pulmonary repercussions or tracheoesophageal cleft.
PATIENTS: Case no. 1 was a 12.7-year-old child with a history of type I oesophageal atresia. He required oesophagocoloplasty and gastric dissociation by the Bianchi procedure at the age of 3 months. He has oesophagogastric reconnection at 11 years old because he had a several macrocytic anaemia. Case no. 2 was also a 12-year-old boy, with an unlabelled multiple malformation syndrome with type I oesophageal atresia. He had an oesophagocoloplasty with gastric dissociation at the age of 3 months to protect his lungs. The reconnection was proposed at 10 years old because he developed multiple nutritional deficiencies and growth retardation.
RESULTS: The two cases have no clinical symptom of reflux and their post-operative digestive contrasts are normal. Reconnection appears possible with or without preserving the Roux-en-Y loop. It improves absorption and corrects any vitamin deficiencies, allows the reconnected stomach to be monitored in terms of reflux and malignancy and enables enteral nutrition supplementation to be stopped. The possibility of reconnection after the Bianchi procedure therefore extends its indications, mostly in the case of oesophageal atresia complicated by severe GOR with pulmonary repercussions or tracheoesophageal cleft.
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