[tri-med] Re: Nissen Fudoplication undone?

Keren had her nissen and g-tube placement at about 7 months. We had  
about two months completely vomit-free, but yeah, that started again.  
In the past 3 1/2 years she's had vomiting, but it's never been like  
it was before she had the nissen. The biggest incidences occur when  
she's got a cold--I always have to feed her smaller amounts more  
frequently at those times.
Interestingly, though, she's had two swallow studies done since her  
fundo, the second was last spring, and both show her fundo intact. It  
was never made SO tightly that nothing could come up (or go down). I  
don't know how that factors into the "temporary" issue....

Loren (wife to Kraig, mom to Keren Elyse, T18, 4 years old!  
(9/27/02), and Clarissa Joanne, our roaring one-year-old (7/17/05) ),  
and baby #3 (EDD 4/21/07).... Cat's out of the bag!
Southeast Michigan
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On Dec 26, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Karen wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sarah Baptista"
>>>  Anyway, my question is, have any of your children ever had their  
>>> nissens
>>> come undone and if so, what did you do?  I remember the surgeon  
>>> saying
>>> that it might happen and he seemed to indicate that he would not  
>>> want to
>>> redo it.
>
> Hi Sarah,
> A fundoplication is only temporary, they all come undone  
> eventually. On
> average they last a few months, sometimes a couple of years. Alex's  
> lasted
> quite a long while but thats the exception not the rule. The idea  
> of the
> fundo is to buy a little time until the reason for the reflux  
> resolves, eg
> tone improves, their swallow improves etc etc. Its not considered a
> permenanet solution.



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