Improve eating of people with narrowing at the esophageal junction

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Hello doctor! My father had esophageal cancer and had surgery to remove the entire esophagus and part of the stomach, reconstructing the esophagus with the stomach. It's been 1 year and 2 months since surgery. However, until now, my father has symptoms of difficulty swallowing, choking when eating, and can only eat liquid food. The endoscopy results concluded that he had a stricture at the esophageal junction. With such a situation, how to improve the eating of people with narrowing at the esophageal junction?
Do Minh Trung (1991)
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Hello,
Because I don't know how narrow the mouth is, I don't know how your father's esophageal cancer progressed after surgery, so the doctor It's also hard to give you exact advice. The doctor's advice in this case on the issue of improving the eating of people with narrowing at the esophageal junction is as follows: if the anastomosis is narrow to a certain extent, you should give your father liquid foods. , soup, ... is still completely narrow, depending on your father's condition, the doctor can redo the anastomosis or open the gastrostomy tube for feeding.
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Answered by Master, Doctor Vu Van Quan - Gastroenterologist - Department of General Surgery & Anesthesia, Vinmec Hai Phong International General Hospital.