Background Reoperative bariatric surgery has become a common practice in many bariatric
surgery programs. There is currently little evidence-based guidance regarding specific …

Weight loss surgery is one of the fastest growing segments of the surgical discipline. As with
all medical procedures, postoperative complications will occur. Acute care surgeons need to …

Background The epidemic of obesity is engulfing developed as well as developing countries
like India. We present our 7-year experience with laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) …

Gastric sleeve gastrectomy has become a frequent bariatric procedure. Its apparent
simplicity hides a number of serious, sometimes fatal, complications. This is more important …

Gastrointestinal leaks and fistulae are serious, potentially life threatening conditions that
may occur with a wide variety of clinical presentations. Leaks are mostly related to post …

GI leak is a known complication after both GB and SG with a reported incidence, in large
published case series of open and laparoscopic cases, between. 1% and 8.3% after GB …

Background Staple-line leaks following laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) remain a
concerning complication. Staple-line buttressing is largely adopted as an acceptable …

Background Leaks are considered one of the major complications of laparoscopic sleeve
gastrectomy (LSG) with a reported rate up to 7%. Drainage of the collection coupled with …

Background Gastrointestinal leak remains one of the most dreaded complications in bariatric
surgery. We aimed to evaluate risk factors and the impact of common perioperative …

Background Leaks after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) are estimated to be the
most serious complication of this procedure due to difficult healing process using non …