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Anti-reflux surgery
Anti-reflux surgery is a group of operations, most often fundoplication wrapping the stomach around the esophagus, that reinforce the gastroesophageal junction to treat GERD when medication fails.
Antireflux surgery
Antireflux surgery is a group of operations, chiefly fundoplication, that reinforce the gastroesophageal barrier to treat gastroesophageal reflux disease when proton pump inhibitor therapy fails.
Diaphragmatic hernia repair
Diaphragmatic hernia repair is surgery that returns abdominal organs displaced into the chest to the abdomen and closes the diaphragm, most often in newborns with congenital diaphragmatic hernia.
Fundoplication
Fundoplication is an operation in which the upper stomach is wrapped around the lower esophagus to reinforce the sphincter against reflux, the main surgery for GERD and hiatal hernia.
Hiatal hernia repair
Hiatal hernia repair is surgery that pulls a stomach herniated through the diaphragm back into the abdomen, narrows the hiatus, and usually adds a fundoplication to restore the antireflux barrier.
Paraesophageal hernia repair
Paraesophageal hernia repair is a surgical operation that returns the stomach and other herniated organs from the chest into the abdomen and closes the diaphragmatic hiatus, usually done laparoscopically.