New 'Incision-Less' Surgery To Stop Acid Reflux Disease

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A new workable secondary prevention technique to prevent esophageal reflux. Surgeons in the Oregon Health & Science University Digestive Health Center are the first and only in the United States to use a newly FDA-approved procedure known as EsophyX transoral fundoplication to stop the debilitating symptoms and complications of gastroesophageal reflux disease, or GERD, which affects some 14 million Americans every day.

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