1.   During the study time two patients had had repeat funcoplication for recurrent reflux and oesophagitis associated with defective fundic wrap.

2.   The state of the fundic wrap was checked with retroflexed endoscope.

3.   Heartburn or regurgitation, or both were less common in the patients with endoscopically intact fundic wrap than in those with defective wrap.

4.   Only inability to belch was associated with the state of the fundic wrap, being twice as common in cases with intact v defective wrap.

5.   Most of the abnormal values were found in patients with defective fundic wrap.

6.   Almost all the abnormal values were found in patients with defective fundic wrap.