Epidemiologicheskie dannye svidetel'stvuyut o tom, chto 40 - 60% vzroslykh patsientov i 90% bol'nykh detey s zhalobami na narusheniya funktsiy sistemy pishchevareniya stradayut ee funktsional'nymi zabolevaniyami. Reflyuksy pishchevaritel'noy sistem: duodenogastral'nyy, duodenogastroezofageal'nyy, duodenogastroezofagolingval'nyy, tolsto-tonkokishechnyy obychno otnosyat k funktsional'noy patologii, ne opredelyaya prichinno-sledstvennye vzaimootnosheniya. Po mneniyu avtorov reflyuksy - eto sledstviya nesostoyatel'nosti bauginievoy zaslonki i khronicheskogo narusheniya duodenal'noy prokhodimosti, posle provedennoy khirurgicheskoy korrektsii kotorykh poluchena stoykaya remissiya v techenie mnogikh intra- i ekstraintestinal'nykh zabolevaniy. V knige opisano anatomicheskoe stroenie organov, gde voznikayut reflyuksy, ikh prichiny, sledstviya, diagnostika i razrabotannye metody operativnogo lecheniya. Vydvinuty gipotezy o vozmozhnostyakh khirurgicheskoy antireflyuksnoy gastroenterologii. Kniga napisana dlya vrachey vsekh spetsial'nostey, studentov i professorsko-prepodavatel'skogo sostava vysshikh meditsinskikh uchrezhdeniy, sotrudnikov nauchno-issledovatel'skikh meditsinskikh tsentrov.