Comment on: Impact on sleeve gastrectomy in patients with esophageal motor disorder.

Abstract

Congratulations to Sans et al. on choosing an interesting and complex topic that can affect patients’ selection for sleeve gastrectomy (SG) with pre-existing esophageal motor disorder (EMD) [1]. The authors started with 37 patients in 5 subgroups and ended up evaluating 16 patients in 4 subgroups who had data from pre- and postoperative high-resolution manometry (HRM) studies. The statistical analysis was only done on the 16 patients. The authors concluded that SG worsens gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and EMD symptoms.