Crural Repair Permits Morbidly Obese Patients with Not Large Hiatal Hernia to Choose Laparoscopic Adjustable Banding as a Bariatric Surgical Treatment

摘要

Hiatal hernia, present radiologically in about 50% of patients desiring bariatric surgery, has been thought a contraindication to laparoscopic adjustable gastric banding (LAGB). Posited was the notion that adding crural repair to LAGB would enable this procedure to be offered to patients desiring bariatric surgery who had hiatal hernias.