Morbid Obesity Surgery And Complications

Obesity surgery is a highly effective method on ensuring a maintained weight loss. Following the obesity surgeries, while there are complications specific to type of the surgery, early or late complications also can be seen. In our study, we aim to present the determined complications during or post surgery on patients who were conducted bariatric surgery due to morbid obesity.Bariatric surgery was conducted on a total of 361 patients. Of these patients, 207 (57.3%) laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG), 38 (10.5%) laparoscopic Roux-n-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB), 32 (8.8%) Rouxn-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), 32 (8.8%) mini gastric bypass (MGB), 28 (7.7%) laparoscopic mini gastric bypass (LMGB), 21 (5.8%) sleeve gastrectomy (SG), 2 (0.5%) vertical banded gastroplasty (VBG) and 1 (0.2%) intragastric balloon placement procedures were applied. Anastomotic leak was determined on 2 patients (0.5%) with Roux-n-Y gastric bypass. On 1 patient with SG conducted, a leak through stapler route has occurred. On 1 patient evisceration, on 1 patient a spleen injury during the surgery, on 44 patient (12.1%) surgical site infection were detected. 91% of these patients with surgical site infection had diabetes mellitus. While on patients with laparoscopic bariatric surgery the ratio of surgical site infection was 6.8%, in open surgery this ratio was increased up to 29.4%. Ileus, pulmonary embolism and DVT were developed in 9 (2.4%), 3, (0.8%) pulmonary and 8 (2.2%) patients, respectively. On super obese 2 patients mortality was occurred due to postoperative lung insufficiency. With bariatric surgery, regardless of the surgery technic used there is a possibility of morbidity. Consequently, it must be careful for selecting a morbid obese patient and during the treatment in terms of complications.