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Despite their wide use in surgical audit, the application of the Physiologic and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) and the Portsmouth predictor of mortality (p-POSSUM) in bariatric surgery has been limited. The aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of POSSUM and p-POSSUM in bariatric comparative audit.Data were retrospectively collected on...
Weight loss and impaired nutritional status are associated with increased complications following surgery. This study aimed to assess the effect of nutritional status on the magnitude of the acute phase protein response, and determine if this is associated with changes in the magnitude of the related cytokine responses. Nineteen patients (10 wellnourished, 9 malnourished on the basis of body composition)...
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