Longitudinal Gastrectomy for Nonbariatric Indications

Table 1

Demographic and clinical data.

Age	Gender	Primary surgery	Gastric surgery	Center	Comments	Early complications	Long-term complications	Follow-up
77	f	Bleeding Dieulafoy lesiongastric fundus	NA	LLG, EGD	Obese; had failed endoscopic clipping: recurrent bleed	None	Lost some weight but regained most	Died 2 years later from MI
80	f	Paraesophageal hernia and fundus polyposis	Para esophageal hernia repair	LLG, EGD, and PEG	Could not create fundoplication due to stiff fundus	None	None	Well alive after 5 years
67	m	Nodules LUQ, fundus, liver, and omentum: splenosis on pathology	Removal of the accessory spleen, omentum, and liver biopsy	LLG	History of splenectomy; suspected leiomyosarcoma metastases	None	None	Well alive after 4 years
72	m	Gastric volvulus and intraabdominal adhesions	Extensive lysis of adhesions	LLG and EGD	Cachexia, heavy smoker; esophagus dysmotility; and a very large stomach creating angled sleeve	Nausea for several days; slow emptying of sleeve	Continued smoking; alpha-loop in sleeve: stent; stent migration: relaparoscopy: stent retrieval and gastrogastrostomy; PEG for overnight feeding	Died after one year from COPD

f: female, m: male; NA: not applicable; LLG: laparoscopic longitudinal gastrectomy; EGD: esophagogastroduodenoscopy; MI: myocardial infarction; COPD: chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.