Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Gastric Bypass for Private Pay Patients Seeking Obesity Surgery

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

Status: Withdrawn

Conditions: Morbid Obesity

Treatments: Procedure: Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass; Procedure: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other; Industry

Identifiers

NCT01063959

FWA 00006218 (Other Identifier)

PBRC 294EX

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to determine laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a safer surgery than the gastric bypass, gives similar weight losses and that the safety of gastric in private pay patients versus insurance patients will be similar. This is a retrospective chart review of intervention charts.

Full description

This study is a retrospective chart review of 800 intervention charts each for consecutive laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomies compared to consecutive laparoscopic gastric bypasses performed by two surgeons in a Louisiana private practice. This retrospective chart review will evaluate the safety of the two procedures during the operative and 6-week post-operative periods, compare the insurance patients to the private pay patients having the gastric bypass, and comparative weight loss in subjects with a follow-up of at least 18 months. This offers the unique opportunity to compare any differences in surgical complications in subjects paying by insurance versus those paying personally for the gastric bypass operation.

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The last 800 consecutive patients in the surgical practice of Drake Bellanger and Andrew Hargroder who had a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy.
• The last 800 consecutive patients in the surgical practice of Drake Bellanger and Andrew Hargroder who had a laparoscopic gastric bypass.

Exclusion criteria

• Subjects having any other obesity surgical procedure

Trial design

0 participants in 3 patient groups

Safety

Other group

Description:

Chart review will evaluate the safety of the two procedures, incidence of complications operatively, hospital stay, and 6-week post-operative periods.

Treatment:

Procedure: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Procedure: Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass

Weight Loss

Experimental group

Description:

Chart review will evaluate weight loss in subjects during the operative, 6-week post-operative, and follow-up of at least 18 months.

Treatment:

Procedure: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Procedure: Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass

Insurance versus Private Pay

Other group

Description:

An insurance company issues an insurance policy to cover specific complications from the gastric bypass or the sleeve gastrectomy surgery which allows the surgeon to offer a fixed price to the patient. Comparison of surgical complications in subjects paying by insurance versus paying personally for the gastric bypass operation.

Treatment:

Procedure: Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy

Procedure: Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass