The Importance of Clinical Indicators for Detecting Postoperative Complications Following Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy.
- Author:
Sung Il KANG
1
;
Sang Moon HAN
;
Won Woo KIM
;
Kyung Po LEE
;
Kyung Sik LEE
Author Information
1. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, Pochun Cha University, Seongnam, Korea. surgeryhan@cha.ac.kr
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy;
Morbid obesity;
Complications;
Tachycardia;
Fever
- MeSH:
Body Temperature;
Diatrizoate Meglumine;
Fever;
Gastrectomy;
Heart Rate;
Hemorrhage;
Humans;
Obesity, Morbid;
Postoperative Complications;
Tachycardia;
Thorax
- From:Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
2008;74(5):347-351
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: The significant drastic complications of performing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG) in morbidly obese patients are gastric staple line leakage and bleeding. The aim of our study is to evaluate the efficacy of the clinical data for detecting postoperative complications after LSG. METHODS: The study enrolled 150 consecutive patients who underwent LSG from January 2003 to July 2006. When abnormal data (heart rate > or = 10/min, or temperature > or = 7.5degrees C) was detected on postoperative day 1, then laboratory tests (blood, urine, chest X-ray and abdominal sonogram) and water soluble gastrografin UGIS were performed to detect the postoperative complications after LSG (group A). The patients who had normal postoperative clinical data (group B) were compared with group A. RESULTS: Of the 150 patients who underwent LSG, 9 patients (6%) had postoperative complications. Two patients had major complications: 1 case of leakage (0.6%) and 1 case of delayed bleeding (0.6%), and 4 patients had minor complications in group A. But no major complications were detected in group B (P<0.01). The heart rate and body temperature in group A were significantly faster and higher than those in group B (P<0.01). Especially, 2 patients who had major complications had severe tachycardia over 120 beats per minute (bpm). However, when the body temperature of a patient was elevated, there was no high grade fever in all the cases ( > 39degrees C). CONCLUSION: Evidence of tachycardia or a high body temperature may be useful to detect major complications after LSG. We also recommend performing laboratory test and UGIS when clinically indicated.
