Strictures after gastric surgery: treatment with fluoroscopically guided balloon dilatation.

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Abstract
Stricture formation resulting in impedance of gastric emptying is a relatively common complication after gastric surgery that involves anastomosis creation or pyloroplasty. Treatment of the stenosis with fluoroscopically guided balloon dilatation avoids further surgery. Accordingly, we report our experience with 32 dilating procedures in 24 consecutive patients who had the postoperative complication of obstruction at a surgically created gastric outlet.Out of our series of approximately 650 fluoroscopically guided balloon dilatations, 32 procedures were performed on 24 patients with anastomotic strictures or pyloric narrowing after gastric surgery (vertical banded gastroplasty or gastric bypass surgery [n = 15], partial esophagectomy with esophagogastrostomy and pyloroplasty [n = 6], and partial gastrectomy with gastrojejunostomy [n = 3]). The group included 13 men and 11 women ranging from 32 to 79 years old (mean, 51 years). Diameters of the balloons chosen ranged from 10 to 20 mm, depending on the size...

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