Comparison of Stretta procedure and toupet fundoplication for gastroesophageal reflux disease-related extra-esophageal symptoms
Chao Yan, Wei-Tao Liang, Zhong-Gao Wang, Zhi-Wei Hu, Ji-Min Wu, Chao Zhang, Mei-Ping Chen
Chao Yan, Wei-Tao Liang, Zhong-Gao Wang, Zhi-Wei Hu, Ji-Min Wu, Mei-Ping Chen, Department of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army, Beijing 100088, China
Chao Yan, Wei-Tao Liang, Zhong-Gao Wang, Chao Zhang, Department of Vascular Surgery, Xuan Wu Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing 100053, China
Author contributions: Yan C, Liang WT, Wang ZG, Hu ZW, Wu JM, Zhang C and Chen MP designed and performed the research; Yan C and Liang WT contributed the analytical tools; Yan C analyzed the data and wrote the manuscript; all authors read and approved the final manuscript.
Institutional review board statement: The study was reviewed and approved by the institutional review boards of the Department of Vascular Surgery, Xuan Wu Hospital, and the Department of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Second Artillery General Hospital of Chinese People’s Liberation Army (Beijing, China).
Informed consent statement: All study participants or their legal guardians provided written consent prior to study enrollment.
Conflict-of-interest statement: The authors of this manuscript have no conflicts of interest to disclose.
Data sharing statement: There are no additional data available.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Zhong-Gao Wang, MD, Department of Vascular Surgery, Xuan Wu Hospital, Capital Medical University, No. 45 Changchun Street, Beijing 100053, China. zhonggaowang@hotmail.com
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Received: May 18, 2015
Peer-review started: May 22, 2015
First decision: July 10, 2015
Revised: August 9, 2015
Accepted: September 30, 2015
Article in press: September 30, 2015
Published online: December 7, 2015
