Do Patients Who Have Had Surgery for Achalasia Suffer From Reflux

Kenneth Luberice

Status: Completed

Conditions: Reflux

Treatments: Other: pH study

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT00519441

104802

Details and patient eligibility

About

Patients who have had laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of achalasia will be asked to have pH studies done in order to determine is these patients suffer from reflux after surgery.

Full description

The purpose of this study is to determine if patients who have laparoscopic Heller myotomies for the treatment of achalasia suffer from reflux after the surgery. Patients at our institution who have had surgery for achalasia will be asked to have pH studies done to determine whether or not these patients have reflux.

Enrollment: 100 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients who have had laparoscopic Heller myotomies for the treatment of achalasia

Exclusion criteria

• Patients under the age of 18 will not be included
• Patients who are receiving anti-reflux therapy will not be included

Trial design

Primary purpose: Diagnostic

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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100 participants in 1 patient group

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Other group

Description:

All patients in the study will have pH studies done in order to determine the degree of reflux after laparoscopic Heller myotomies.

Treatment:

Other: pH study