Laparoscopic surgeries for gastroesophageal reflux disease, sliding and mixed hiatal hernias, including paraesophageal hernias
Laparoscopic surgeries – hernias (inguinal, anterior abdominal wall, incisional, umbilical), abdominal muscle diastasis, gallbladder surgeries.
A highly experienced surgeon, graduate of the Faculty of General Medicine at Charles University in Prague, 1970.
From 1990 to 1995, he served as the head of the surgery department at Vysočany Hospital in Prague, and from 1995 to 2010 as the head of the surgery department at Almeda Hospital in Neratovice.
Since 2010, he has been working as a consultant at Palas Athéna.
MUDr. Václav Drahoňovský is one of the first surgeons to perform laparoscopic cholecystectomy (CHE) and hernioplasty, with a focus on laparoscopic surgeries for ulcer disease in 1993, as well as the first laparoscopic surgeries for gastroesophageal reflux disease, diaphragmatic hernias, and achalasia in 1994 in Czechoslovakia.
He is also one of the first surgeons in the Czech Republic to master laparoscopic surgery for intestinal diseases.
Publications:
- Drahoňovský V. Laparoscopic Surgery for General Practitioners, Galen, 2000
- Co-author of laparoscopic publications: Duda M., Czudek S., Minimally Invasive Surgery 1996; Frič P., Ryska M., Digestive Endoscopy and Laparoscopic Surgery, Prague, 1996
- Drahoňovský V., Kmeť L., Hnuta J., Švamberk P. Diagnosis and Incidence of Hiatal Hernia, Causal Relationship Between Hiatal Hernia and Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease, Czech and Slovak Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2004
- Drahoňovský V., Vrbenský L., Pecák P. Laparoscopic Fundoplication: Results After 5 Years, ČSGEH 2005
- Drahoňovský V. Commentary on the Article by Lundell L.: Therapy of GERD: An Updated Approach to Antireflux Surgery, Czech and Slovak Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2008
- Drahoňovský V., Pecák P. Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease – Diagnosis, Examination, and Treatment, Endoscopy, 2009
- Drahoňovský V., Vrbenský L., Pecák P. The Effect of Antireflux Surgery on the Development of Barrett's Esophagus After More Than 5 Years, Czech and Slovak Gastroenterology and Hepatology, 2008
Numerous expert lectures on the topics of diaphragmatic hernias, large diaphragmatic hernias, and extra-esophageal manifestations of gastroesophageal reflux.
He is a member of the European Association for Endoscopic Surgery, the Czech Surgical Society JEP, a member of the board of the Minimally Invasive Surgery Section of the Czech Society of Surgery, and the Gastroenterological Society JEP.
