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Journal of anesthesia · Oct 2012
Obesity and postoperative early complications in open heart surgery.
- Aslı Demir, Bahar Aydınlı, Çiğdem Yıldırım Güçlü, Hija Yazıcıoğlu, Ahmet Saraç, Atilla H Elhan, and Özcan Erdemli.
- Anesthesiology Department, Türkiye Yüksek İhtisas Education and Research Hospital, Anesthesia Clinic, Kizilay Street, No: 4, Sihhiye, Ankara, 06100, Turkey. zaslidem@yahoo.com
- J Anesth. 2012 Oct 1;26(5):702-10.
PurposeWe investigated the distribution of early clinical outcomes among normal, obese, and morbidly obese patients undergoing open heart surgery.MethodsMedical records of 1,000 patients undergoing open heart surgery since February 2011 at our hospital were investigated retrospectively after permission was obtained from the Council of Education Planning of the hospital. The comorbidities and perioperative and discharge data were analyzed for 279 patients with a body mass index (BMI) score between 18 and <30 [non-obese reference group (NRG, n = 279)]; 166 patients with BMI between 30 and <35 [obese group (OG, n = 166); and 192 seriously obese patients with BMI ≥35 [extreme obese group (EOG, n = 192)]. Distribution of the patients according to BMI scores was found to represent the BMI distribution of the Turkish population.ResultsPulmonary and infective complications were significantly higher in EOG patients compared to NRG based on crude confidence interval. Based on adjusted multiple logistic regression analysis, by adjusting the effects of age, sex, comorbidities (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, hyperlipidemia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease), and smoking, the incidence of pulmonary and gastrointestinal complications in EOG was higher compared to NRG. Discharge with morbidity was significantly higher in OG and EOG compared to NRG.ConclusionsWe found that obesity does not increase short-term mortality for open heart surgery; however, it increases the risk of postoperative pulmonary and gastrointestinal complications and discharge with morbidity.
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