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A careful history of the patients’ symptoms is taken, with emphasis on heartburn and regurgitation, and response to proton pump inhibitor therapy. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, oesophageal manometry and 24-h pH monitoring are routinely performed to confirm gastro-oesophageal reflux and identify motility disorders where a Nissen fundoplication should be avoided.
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Watson, D.I. (2017). Surgical Technique and Difficult Situations from David I. Watson. In: Korenkov, M., Germer, CT., Lang, H. (eds) Gastrointestinal Operations and Technical Variations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-49878-1_11
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