Hospital utilization 4 years after bariatric surgery: sleeve gastrectomy versus Roux-en-Y gastric bypass.

CONCLUSION: Postoperative 4-year hospital utilization remains low for both SG and RYGB. The previously established lower early perioperative risk of SG was not appreciated for longer-term hospital use compared with RYGB.
PMID: 31358393 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

Source: Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases : official journal of the American Society for Bariatric Surgery - June 26, 2019 Category: Surgery Authors: Spaniolas K, Goldberg I, Yang J, Zhu C, Docimo S, Talamini MA, Pryor AD Tags: Surg Obes Relat Dis Source Type: research