Rates of Reoperation and Non-operative Intervention Within 30 Days of Bariatric Surgery

Bariatric surgery has dramatically changed the therapeutic landscape of obesity management and is now considered the most efficacious option for sustained weight loss and treatment of obesity-related medical diseases [1,2]. In North America, over 228,000 procedures were performed in 2017 alone [3,4]. Given pandemic rates of obesity and the relative futility of currently available medical therapies, demand is only expected to increase.

Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases - January 11, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Farah Ladak, Jerry T. Dang, Noah Switzer, Valentin Mocanu, Daniel Birch, University of Alberta Tags: Original articles Source Type: research