LAPAROSCOPIC GASTRIC BY PASS FOR TREATMENT OF MORBID OBESITY: FIRST 140 CASES

Abstract

Morbid obesity is a chronic and degenerative disease, with an unsatisfactory medical treatment, being bariatric surgery the most effective actually. Objective: Characterize the results of gastric bypass surgery in morbid obesity treatment, at the Hospital General del Este Dr.
Domingo Luciani, Caracas. Patients and method: Descriptive and observational study. Results: 144 patients were operated between August 2008 and September 2010. Most were female, with 35,7 ± 8,6 years old, Body Mass Index 45,7 ± 6,3 kg/mt2 and at least one comorbid associated (67,4%). The patients lost 71,5 ± 13,9 % of excess weight at the end of the first postoperative year, and 72,5 ± 18,1% at the end of the second year. There were no operative mortality, and morbidity was 9,72%, being postoperative bleeding, the most frequent (4,16%).
Conclusions: Roux en-Y gastric bypass surgery is an effective treatment of morbid obesity, with acceptable mortality and morbidity
rates.