The incidence of patients requiring another operation after a redo operation after an initial laparoscopic fundoplication is 18%. Patient demographics and time to re-operation have not been found to be predictive of which patient will require multiple re-operations for recurrence. However, younger patients and those with a shorter time to re-operation may increase the likelihood of failure.
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