Quality of life following laparoscopic Nissen fundoplication: Assessing short-term and long-term outcomes

Table 2 Operative data and short-term surgical outcome n (%)

	n = 249
Type of surgery
Floppy Nissen fundoplication	213 (85.5)
Rosetti-Hell fundoplication	36 (14.5)
Hiatoplasty	235 (94.4)
Conversion to open surgery1	7 (2.8)
Operation time, min, median (IQR)	90 (70.3-135.0)
Mortality (30 d)	0 (0.0)
Intraoperative complications	3 (1.2)
Esophageal perforation	2 (0.8)
Burn injury of the fundus	1 (0.4)
Postoperative morbidity (30 d)2	19 (7.6)
General	12 (4.8)
Atelectasis + fever	5 (2.0)
Pneumonia	7 (2.8)
Surgical	9 (3.6)
Pleural empyema	1 (0.4)
Fundic perforation (burn injury)	1 (0.4)
Port-site hernia and bowel obstruction	1 (0.4)
Port-site bleeding	2 (0.8)
Excessive pain at port-site	1 (0.4)
Gastric dilatation	1 (0.4)
Wound infection	1 (0.4)
Urinary retention	1 (0.4)
Reoperation rate3	5 (2.0)
Relaparotomy	4 (1.6)
Thoracotomy and decortication	1 (0.4)
Postoperative hospital stay, d, median (IQR)	2 (2-3)

¹Reasons for conversion: intraoperative esophageal perforation (n = 1), technical difficulties in dissection (n = 4), obesity (n = 1), problem with CO₂-insufflation (n = 1);

²Figures in the column include some patients with more than one complication;

³Reoperations: bowel obstruction (n = 1), fundic perforation (n = 1), port-site bleeding (n = 2), thoracotomy and decortication for pleural empyema (n = 1). IQR: Interquartile range.