OBJECTIVE: To compare, in rats, the efficiency of Nissen and Boix-Ochoa techniques in the treatment of gastroesophageal reflux (GER) induced by a Heller's procedure. METHOD: 30 rats Wistar aged between 40 and 60 days and weighing between 210 g and 342 g were used. The animals were divided in three (A,B,C) groups of 10 rats each. A Heller's operation was made in all the animals. In group B, it was followed by a Nissen procedure and, in group C, by a Boix-Ochoa procedure. The intragastric pressure necessary to produce reflux was mesured in all animals: before any procedure; immediately after the Heller, Nissen and Boix-Ochoa porcedures; and 6 weeks later, when the animals were killed. RESULTS: Restauration of body weight and reconstitution of more physiologic gastroesophageal pressure gradients were more effective with the Boix-Ochoa technique. CONCLUSION: the techniques of Nissen and Boix-Ochoa are effective in the treatment of GER induced by a Heller's procedure in rats. The second one, howerver, restaures, more adequately, the physiologic values of the two parameters used in this study: body weight and gastroesophageal pressure gradients.
Gastroesophageal reflux; Fundoplication; Surgical procedures, operative; Rats, Wistar
