Impact of Resected Gastric Volume on Postoperative Weight Loss After Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Obesity

University of Rome Tor Vergata

Status: Completed

Conditions: Morbid Obesity

Treatments: Procedure: Gastric volume resected in sleeve gastrectomy

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03938025

Gastric Volume Sleeve

Details and patient eligibility

About

Impact of resected gastric volume on postoperative weight loss after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy for morbid obesity. Observational study with a mathematical method to approximate the calculation of the resected gastric volume after a sleeve gastrectomy and see the outcome on weight loss.

Enrollment: 92 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 70 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• BMI over 60 kg/m2 in high-risk patients,
• BMI between 50 and 60 kg/m2 in nondiabetic patients,
• BMI between 40 and 50 kg/m2 in patients refusing a complex procedure like Roux-en-Y gastric bypass,
• patients with severe gastric inflammatory disease and H. pylori infection,
• patients with previous abdominal surgery involving the intestines, and young patients refusing gastric banding

Exclusion criteria

• severe and documented gastroesophageal reflux disease
• previous gastric surgery.