Doctor Shao sighed, knowing that the physicians at his hospital had done their best, and said, "The patient's anastomosis is stenosed."
"So it's even harder to find," Yu Xuexian acknowledged from experience, "I guess the scope will be difficult to pass through. How many times has he undergone balloon dilation before?"
"Twice," Doctor Shao said.
Stenosis of the anastomosis, like an anastomotic leak, is a very challenging postoperative complication. The cause of stenosis is usually scar proliferation. Furthermore, the patient's usage of a feeding tube means there is no gastrointestinal motility, and the anastomosis is not mechanically expanded by the daily passage of food, which increases the likelihood of stenosis.
