[Dysphagia] Janeway Surgery

[gjackson at rochester.rr.com (gerriann jackson)]

I had posted this question and finally got an answer when the surgeon who
brought it up returned from vacation.  I thought that I would post the
answer in case anyone else was curious.

The surgery involves cutting a flap in the anterior wall of the gastric
stomach and fashioning a tube from the flap.  A stoma is created in the
adominal wall and the tube is attached to the stoma.  This creates a
permanent entranceway into the stomach.  Each time the person with dysphagia
is to be fed, tubing is placed into the stomach via this opening and the
nourishment is administered.  When the feeding is over, the tube is removed.

This surgery is not performed often for the obvious reason; leaking of
gastric contents, esp. acid out through the stoma.

So that is a Janeway surgical procedue.

Gerriann Jackson