Efficacy of SASI Bypass in Super Obese Patients

Mansoura University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Morbid Obesity

Treatments: Procedure: SASI bypass

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04037670

mansoura101

Details and patient eligibility

About

Although previous studies investigated weight loss and improvement in comorbidities after SASI bypass, patients included in these studies had a BMI less than 50 Kg/m2. Therefore, the aim of the present study was to investigate the outcome of SASI bypass in patients with super obesity to assess the success of this novel bariatric procedure in this challenging group of patients in regards weight loss and improvement in associated comorbid conditions at 12 months postoperatively.

Enrollment: 20 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients included to the present study were adult patients of both genders aging between 18 and 65 years with primary morbid obesity with BMI ≥50 kg/m2 with or without obesity-associated comorbidities such as hypertension, diabetes mellitus (DM), dyslipidemias, and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnant women.
• Patients unfit for general anasthesia (ASA 4, 5)
• Endocrine or psychiatric disorders.
• History of previous upper abdmominal laparotomy.
• Alcoholic addiction
• Liver cirrhosis
• Coagulopathy

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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20 participants in 1 patient group

SASI bypass

Experimental group

Description:

Patients with super obesity underwent SASI bypass

Treatment:

Procedure: SASI bypass