Gastric Sleeve Surgery (Sleeve Gastrectomy) Complications
Here is one meta-study that followed 646 patients who've undergone gastric sleeve surgery for morbid obesity. These are the complications and the frequency of occurance. One of the benefits of gastric sleeve surgery is that it has low complications rates, similar to to gastric banding surgery, compared with RNY gastric bypass surgery.
Most Popular Complications of Sleeve Gastrectomy
- Reoperations* - 29
- Leaking - 6
- Prolonged Ventilator Requirements** - 5
- Srictures - 5
- Renal Insufficiency - 4
- Postoperative hemorrhage - 2
- Atelectasis - 2
- Pulmonary Embolus+ - 2
- Delayed Gastric Emptying - 2
- Gastric Dilation - 1
- Prolonged Vomiting - 1
- Subphrenic abscess - 1
- Trocar-site Infection - 1
- Urinary Tract Infection - 1
- Splenic Injury - 1
- Trocar Site Hernia - 1
- Death - 4
* Indications not reported, ** >24 Hour ventilator requirements, +1 resulted in death.
Resources:
- Andrew A Gumbs, MD; Michel Gagner, MD; Gregory Dakin, MD; Afons, Md. Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbid Obesity. Obesity Surgery, 17, 2007: 966.