[Laparoscopic transhiatal resection of the lower third of the esophagus for late recurrence of achalasia cardia after laparoscopic esophagocardiomyotomy: a 12-year follow-up].

The choice of treatment for recurrence after esophagocardiomyotomy is individual. Repeated esophagocardiomyotomy is appropriate in patients without malignancy and significant deposition of food masses in distal esophagus followed by severe pulmonary complications. Esophagectomy is desirable in case of unadvisable or failed repeated esophagocardiomyotomy. The authors presents laparoscopic transhiatal resection of the lower third of the esophagus (2019) in a patient with recurrent achalasia of the cardia stage 3-4 and cicatricial peptic stricture of the lower third of the esophagus after previous laparoscopic esophagocardiomyotomy with fundoplication (2009). The immediate results of redo surgery and physical status of the patient after 3 years (12-year follow-up) are described.