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Introduction For the last two decades, obesity rates have been increasing in both developed and developing countries, with the number of obese women roughly doubling during this period (Stevens et al. in Popul Health Metr 10(1):33, 2012). Obesity represents one of the biggest epidemics of the 21st century. The aim of this retrospective study is to characterise the outcomes of gynaecologic surgeries...
This is a retrospective review of 260 consecutive patients, of one surgeon, operated on for morbid obesity. There were 245 primary, and 15 referred secondary, patients. For primary cases, there was a 0.8% (2/245) mortality, and 4.4% (11/245) emergency reexploration rate. Of these 2.5% (6/245) were at <30 days (all <5 days) and 1.6% (4/245) >30 days (all >2 years). Ten (4.1%) were electively...
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