What is esophagectomy? WAS: Oh, back in the day...

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Jan Dolph wrote:

What

is esophagectomy?  I am wondering if that is what I’m

headed for.

If you reach a point where repeat myotomies and dilatation no longer

help because the esophagus is too bent out of shape, (very bad S

curve), then they sometimes remove most of the esophagus

(esophagectomy). There are different ways to do it depending on how

much of the esophagus can be saved and how much of the stomach is in

good shape. The most common way for treating achalasia is to convert

the stomach into a tube and connect it to what is left of the esophagus

in the neck. Generally this has turned out well for the people in this

group that have had it, but there are risks.

notan