SAGES 2017

Friday, March 24, 2017
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM *Included in Registration SuperPass (Option A) or Registration Option C
The Devil is in the Details Session: Technical Tips from
the Masters - Re-Do Anti-Reflux Surgery
Chair: David Rattner, MD | Co-Chair: Edward Philips, MD
SESSION DESCRIPTION
Re-operative antireflux surgery is an essential option tool to prevent recurrent reflux in patients with late failures of
a fundoplication as well as to correct certain types of early complications from an anti-reflux procedure. This session
addresses the scenarios where re-operative surgery is most likely to be beneficial and will illustrate the techniques that
are most useful to conduct re-operations safely and successfully.
SESSION OBJECTIVES
At the conclusion of this session, participants will be able to:
• Identy remediable causes of fundoplication failures
• Employ safe techniques to identify altered post fundoplication anatomy and be able to restore normal anatomy as
part of a reoperation
• Be able to emply multiple techniques for re-operative fundoplication that are tailored to the problem being adressed
ACTIVITY OUTLINE
Time Presentation Title Invited Faculty
3:00PM Indications and Contraindications for re-do AntiReflux Surgery Aurora Pryor, MD
3:12PM Esophageal lengthening- When and how? Steven Bowers, MD
3:24PM Closing the Difficult Hiatus Brant Oelschlager, MD
3:36PM Dealing with densely scarred fundus Nathaniel Soper, MD
3:48PM Perforations, necrosis and sepsis John Hunter, MD
4:00PM Case Presentations - Audience participation All Faculty
LEARNING THEMES:
FOR Foregut
NATIONAL PRIORITIES
GUIDELINES:
• Guidelines for the Management of Hiatal Hernia
• Guidelines for Surgical Treatment of Gastroesophageal
Reflux Disease (GERD)
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