How does surgery for GERD work?
In a fundoplication, the top part of your stomach is wrapped
around the bottom of your esophagus and attached there.
This helps strengthen the muscle at the bottom of your esophagus
that closes to keep food and acid from coming back up.
The surgeon may be able to do the surgery with a tool called a
“laparoscope” (pronounced LAH-pruh-skohp). A laparoscope is a
thin tube with a tiny camera that the surgeon puts through small
cuts in your belly along with other small tools to do the surgery.
It usually takes less time to recover from surgery with a
laporascope than if the surgeon has to make a large cut in your
belly to do the surgery.