Christian Jurowich, Andreas Thalheimer, Florian Seyfried, Martin Fein, Gwendolyn Bender, Christoph-Thomas Germer, Christian Wichelmann
OBJECTIVE: To analyze gastric leakage following sleeve gastrectomy depending on its point of detection and localization in order to evaluate therapeutic strategies. METHOD: From Dec 2006 until June 2010, data of all patients undergoing bariatric surgery were entered into a prospectively documented database. Evaluation contained patient's gender, age, body mass index (BMI), type of surgery, clinical symptoms, diagnostics, onset and localization of leakage, type of therapy, length of stay (LOS), and clinical outcome...
October 2011: Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery