Display options
Share it on

Arq Bras Cir Dig. 2016;29:72-74. doi: 10.1590/0102-6720201600S10018.

EARLY POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS IN ROUX-EN-Y GASTRIC BYPASS.

Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery

[Article in Portuguese]
Aluisio Stoll, Leandro Rosin, Mariana Fernandes Dias, Bruna Marquiotti, Giovana Gugelmin, Gabriela Fanezzi Stoll

Affiliations

  1. UNIMED Hospital Center and Dona Helena Hospital, Joinville, SC, Brazil.

PMID: 27683781 PMCID: PMC5064270 DOI: 10.1590/0102-6720201600S10018

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Roux-en-Y gastric bypass is one of the most common bariatric surgery and leads to considerable weight loss in the first months.

AIM: To quantify the main early postoperative complications in patients submitted to the gastric bypass.

METHOD: Observational retrospective cohort. Data of 1051 patients with class II obesity associated with comorbidities or class III obesity submitted to the gastric bypass with 30 days of follow-up starting from the date of the surgery.

RESULTS: The age average was 36 years with a predominance of females (81.1%). The mean preoperative body mass index was 43 kg/m². The major complication was fistula (2.3%), followed by intestinal obstruction (0.5%) and pulmonary embolism (0.5%). Death occurred in 0.6% of the cases.

CONCLUSION: In the period of 30 days after surgery the overall complication rate was 3.8%; reoperation was necessary in 2.6% and death occurred in 0.6%. Fistula was the main complication and the leading cause of hospitalization in intensive care unit, reoperation and death.

Conflict of interest statement

none

References

  1. Rev Bras Ter Intensiva. 2007 Jun;19(2):205-9 - PubMed
  2. Surg Endosc. 2008 Dec;22(12):2554-63 - PubMed
  3. JAMA. 2015 Jan 6;313(1):62-70 - PubMed
  4. Arq Bras Cir Dig. 2015;28 Suppl 1:3-6 - PubMed
  5. JAMA Surg. 2014 Mar;149(3):275-87 - PubMed
  6. Arq Bras Endocrinol Metabol. 2010 Mar;54(3):303-10 - PubMed
  7. Rev Col Bras Cir. 2013 Jan-Feb;40(1):11-5 - PubMed
  8. Arq Bras Cir Dig. 2015;28 Suppl 1:15-8 - PubMed
  9. Arq Bras Cir Dig. 2015;28(1):74-80 - PubMed
  10. Obes Surg. 2007 Jan;17(1):9-14 - PubMed
  11. Rev Col Bras Cir. 2012 May-Jun;39(3):178-82 - PubMed
  12. Arq Bras Cir Dig. 2014;27 Suppl 1:2-8 - PubMed

Publication Types