Histor y of antireflu x surger y in names and portraits

Abstract

The history of surgical treatment of gastroesophageal reflux, as a separate field of medicine, has only about a hundred years. However, like other sections of modern surgery, it relies on a huge foundation of knowledge in normal and pathological anatomy, physiology and other related disciplines, accumulated by many generations of scientists and clinicians. The article describes the main stages in the development of the theory of gastroesophageal reflux disease as a separate pathological condition. In the paper the most important for the formation of modern ideas about this phenomenon of discovery in the field of anatomy and physiology of the upper divisions of the digestive tract are reflected. The general chronological milestones in the development of clinical concepts of gastroesophageal reflux disease and development of approaches to its surgical treatment are presented.