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factors are suspected to be implicated in these changes, including but not limited to proportion of visceral body fat, intra-abdominal pressure, dietary composition (high-fat diet), changes in gastroin­testinal hormonal levels (leptin, ghrelin, GLP-1), and diabetes mellitus [3, 4]. Changes in the microbiome are also being studied for their potential role in altered function of the GI tract in obese patients, but appear to play a more signicant role in the distal portions [5]. In this chapter, we will focus on these interactions as it pertains to the anatomic and physiologic integrity of the esoph­agus and stomach.
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Esophagus
Esophageal peristalsis and functionality of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) have been suspected to be altered in obese and morbidly obese patients for several years [6]. Kuper etal. in 2009, using traditional manometric testing, identied morbidly obese patients as having dysfunction of the LES and altered esophageal motility, even in the absence of GERD symptoms [6].
The advent of high-resolution manometry (HRM) and the methodological classication of esophageal dysmotility disorders with the Chicago Classication allow for more reliable ndings with reproducible/consistent nomenclature [3].
Esophageal Dysmotility
While there are numerous factors responsible for the onset of dys­motility disorders, obesity has been implicated in the dysfunction at numerous critical portions of normal esophageal peristalsis (see Fig.3.1).
Esophageal dysmotility is common in morbidly obese patients. Utilizing HRM, Kristo etal. found that the prevalence of esopha­geal motility disorders, as classied by the Chicago algorithm, was 34% among obese patients [7]. In this study, a signicant proportion of the disorders were outow obstruction and a novel hypercontractile disorder, which they referred to as jackhammer esophagus. These ndings mirrored previous studies, which found
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Fig. 3.1 High-resolution manometry (HRM) and the effects of morbid obe­sity. UES upper esophageal sphincter, LES lower esophageal sphincter
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Fig. 3.2 Increased transdiaphragmatic pressure causing hiatal hernia. UES upper esophageal sphincter, LES lower esophageal sphincter
high rates of dysmotility, specically hypercontractile abnormali­ties, in obese patients [8, 9].
The presumed mechanism of esophageal dysmotility arises from the increased pressure from excess adipose tissue characteristic of obese patients [7]. This creates a gradient, which exceeds the normal force from the intra-abdominal cavity and intra- thoracic cavity, a phenomenon referred to as increased trans­diaphragmatic pressure (TP) (see Fig.3.2). The increased pres­sure opposes the forward-owing peristalsis, which may cause
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compensatory increases in contractile forces resulting in dys­motility or simply disrupting the natural peristalsis. More evi­dence needs to be elucidated for the exact mechanism. However, some speculate esophageal motility derangements are secondary to the measurable changes in LES pressure, presence of hiatal her­nias, and increased gastric pressure, all of which are discussed later in this chapter.
The increasing use of bariatric surgery with the potential impact that some of the more common procedures (sleeve gas­trectomy) may have on esophageal motility makes it critically important for clinicians and patients to have a better understand­ing of esophageal motility of morbidly obese patients at baseline.
There is evidence that a variety of dysmotility disorders can occur after or as a result of bariatric surgical procedures [10]. These are described in dedicated chapters later in this manual (Chaps. 27, 29, 41, and 42).
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Integrity oftheLower Esophageal Sphincter (LES)
Perhaps the most profound of the effects of obesity is its altera­tion of the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) and the implica­tions of those alterations. Normal resting pressure at the LES is 10–26mmHg [11]. During swallowing, LES pressure initially rises to 45mmHg and then slowly relaxes to the resting pressure over 2–3s [11]. LES length, dened as the distance between the upper and lower borders of LES, is usually in the range of 3–4cm in healthy adults [12]. This pressure and length are ade­quate to protect the esophagus from reuxing acid produced in the stomach.
In obese patients, due largely to the increased transdiaphrag­matic pressure, LES resting pressure and length are both signi­cantly decreased. HRM LES resting pressures in obese patients are signicantly decreased, measuring 6mmHg [1318]. Jung etal. showed that obesity also contributes to LES length shorten­ing to 1cm [19]. Both of these contribute to the breakdown of protection from esophageal reux from the stomach, resulting in
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gastroesophageal reux disease (GERD) and its sequelae. This problem is so prevalent in the obese patient population that when studied Klaus etal. found that patients with obesity were twice as likely to have mechanically defective LES complexes as compared to healthy adults [13]. Besides resting LES pressures, one study found that there were independently increased LES relaxations in obese patients during the postprandial phase [6]. Consequently, the prevalence of LES disruption is evident in the obese patient population.
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Integrity oftheHiatal Crura
As alluded to earlier, obesity increases transdiaphragmatic pres­sure (TP) both at rest and during strain. We have described in the previous section the impact this has on the contractility of the esophagus. In addition, chronically increased TP can result in macroscopic anatomic changes to the diaphragmatic crura result­ing in the development of a hiatal hernia. A hiatal hernia is dened as the migration of the LES and/or stomach and, in some cases, additional intra-abdominal organs, normally located below the diaphragm through the hiatus in the diaphragm and above the dia­phragm [20].
Rates of hiatal hernias in patients having a BMI  30 vary based on the modality of diagnosis with up to 23% being diag­nosed on esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) [20] and 40% on upper gastrointestinal (UGI) contrast studies [21]. Data from pre­operative bariatric EGD studies have found hiatal hernias in up to 52% of patients with BMI  30 [22, 23]. Evidence shows that higher TP is directly correlated with increasing BMI and waist circumference [13, 24]. Most current data illustrate correlative data between obesity and hiatal hernia occurrence. However, recent models in dogs show that the presence of increased abdom­inal pressure increased the diameter of the hiatal opening in the diaphragm, and esophageal shortening can disrupt the integrity of the LES/crura and force the foregut into the chest causing the migration or hernia [25] (see Fig.3.2).
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Stomach
Some of the obesity-related factors that play a key role in induc­ing changes to the esophageal function—TP—also have an impact on the stomach. Higher intra-abdominal pressure increases intra­gastric pressure, which contributes to gastric contents physically crossing the EGJ [14, 26] and contributes to the propulsion of the stomach from the intra-abdominal cavity into the intra-thoracic cavity [21]. However, there are a few stomach-specic pathophys­iologic changes worth noting in the obese population.
Regulation ofAppetite
Ghrelin is an orexigenic hormone produced by endocrine cells in the stomach after stimulation by the vagus nerve causing an increase in appetite [27]. Obesity has been shown to be correlated with higher levels of ghrelin, proposed to be the result of altered stimulation from the vagus nerve in obese patients [2729]. The overall effect is appetite stimulation, increased intake, and weight gain. This is supported by the fact that, in most bariatric proce­dures, the exclusion of the fundus results in decreased ghrelin secretion, which contributes to weight loss [29]. In addition, stud­ies have shown decreased satiety and feelings of fullness corre­lated with altered appetite-regulating hormone pathways, which include feedback from the stomach in obese patients [30].
Gastric Size andMotility
Obesity also affects the size and function of the stomach itself. One large study involving >500 patients showed that obese patients had larger fasting gastric volume [31]. In addition, some studies have shown that patients with obesity have larger stom­achs on ultrasound, CT scan, and at direct visualization at the time of surgery [32]. These data were correlated with a delayed feeling of satiety, as well as increased levels of hunger leading to higher consumption [31].
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Gastric motility appears to be altered in obesity as well. The overall effect of obesity on motility is controversial and likely multifactorial. On one hand, some studies have observed increased gastric emptying times in obese patients, which is believed to con­tribute to late satiety [31] and could very well predispose to increase gastroesophageal reux. On the other hand, diabetes mellitus (DM) contributes to decreased contractility via gastropa­resis, which is thought to arise from damage to the vagus nerve [33]. Krishnasamy etal. found that 20–50% of diabetic patients suffer from gastroparesis [34]. Likely, both of these pathologic states exist simultaneously and the overall effect is different for each patient. To complicate things further, evidence exists to sug­gest an even stronger role of hormonal regulation on motility than previously thought [35].
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Obesity asaRisk Factor forDened Pathologic States
Gastroesophageal Reux Disease (GERD)
All of the aforementioned alterations in anatomy and physiol­ogy help contribute to an overall increased acid/alkaline expo­sure of the esophagus in the obese patient. Herbella et al. showed that BMI was independently associated with the sever­ity of GERD and that in most morbidly obese patients with GERD, reux occurred despite normal or hypertensive esopha­geal motility [36]. Obese patients have a threefold increase in total acid exposure events (dened as a number of times at which pH<4 at LES) [37, 38]. This relationship has also been shown to be reversible with weight loss both via lifestyle mod­ications and bariatric surgery [39]. In other words, a portion of GERD in obese patients can be attributed to increased trans­diaphragmatic pressure; however, the majority of obese patients have a pathophysiology completely independent of isolated LES dysfunction (which argues against traditional anti-reux surgery being effective in this patient population). The pathologic effect of GERD is exacerbated by the fact that
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esophageal dysmotility, present in many obese patients, is associated with decreased acid clearance, which increases total acid exposure time [24].
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Barrett’s Esophagus (BE)
Linked to higher rates of GERD, perhaps the most consequential physiologic change IN the foregut associated with obesity is Barrett’s esophagus (BE). BE is the metaplastic change in muco­sal cells lining the lower portion of the esophagus from stratied squamous to simple columnar epithelium, a premalignant condi­tion [40].
Studies have shown that while the rate of BE in the non-obese population is close to 1.2%, it can reach as high as 9% in obese patients [40, 41]. Other studies have shown that in obese women, every 5kg/m2 increase in BMI leads to a 35% increase in the inci­dence of BE [39].
While all of the aforementioned mechanisms of increased acid exposure contribute to this higher incidence of BE in obese patients, other theories including decreased sensitivity to acid exposure in obese patients leading to longer exposure times have been proposed, also called silent reux [42].
Esophageal Adenocarcinoma (EAC)
With increased levels of BE reported in the obese population, it is no surprise that higher levels of esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) also exist as BE is a signicant risk factor for the develop­ment of EAC [43, 44] and cancers of the esophageal body and stomach cardia [39].
Recent studies have also proposed that the local microbiome of the foregut created by obesity and the hormonal changes it creates could be a contributing factor leading to EAC; however, more research into the topic is required [5].
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Conclusion
As the prevalence and incidence of obesity continue to steadily increase, consideration of the effects of this disease on the anat­omy and physiology of the foregut will become essential in health care going forward. Clinicians caring for these patients will need to be able to utilize a broader set of diagnostic tools and consider more complex pathophysiologic pathways than those that are accepted for non-obese patients. While preventive care for obe­sity, in the form of lifestyle modications, remains the gold stan­dard for treating physicians, bariatric surgery to treat obesity and reverse the pathophysiology discussed above is increasing in popularity.
Foregut surgeons who want to properly and comprehensively care for this patient population will need to embrace the impor­tance of bariatric surgical options in the care of some of the disor­ders traditionally approached with standard—and likely ineffective in obese patients—anti-reux procedures.
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