NCT00519441

Do Patients Who Have Had Surgery for Achalasia Suffer From Reflux

Gastroesophageal Reflux in Patients With Achalasia

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 100 (actual)
• Sponsor: Kenneth Luberice · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Detailed 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.

Conditions

• Reflux

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	pH study	All patients will have 48 hour pH study

Timeline

• Start date: 2007-06-01
• Primary completion: 2009-06-01
• Completion: 2009-06-01
• First posted: 2007-08-22
• Last updated: 2012-08-15

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States