• Int J Surg · Jan 2014

    Bariatric surgery in elderly patients. A comparison between gastric banding and sleeve gastrectomy with five years of follow up.

    • Mario Musella, Marco Milone, Paola Maietta, Paolo Bianco, Guido Coretti, Anna Pisapia, Dario Gaudioso, and Francesco Milone.
    • Advanced Biomedical Sciences Department - General Surgery, "Federico II" University, Naples, Italy. Electronic address: mario.musella@unina.it.
    • Int J Surg. 2014 Jan 1; 12 Suppl 2: S69-72.

    IntroductionThe prevalence of obesity is rising progressively, even among elderly patients. Many studies investigated about safety and efficacy of bariatric surgery among aged obese patients. The objective of this review is to assess the benefits relative to risks of weight loss that may be obtained by performing two common bariatric procedures in obese elderly patient.Materials And MethodsWe retrospectively evaluated 10 morbid obese patients older than 60 years reaching 5 years of follow up who respectively underwent Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) or Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding (LAGB). Eventual changes in comorbidities, weight loss, EWL% were investigated.ResultsAlthough LSG patients required a longer postoperative hospital stay than LAGB patients (p < 0.001), both procedures have shown to be safe and equally effective for weight loss achievement in elderly patients. Whereas all patients showed comorbidities resolution, no significant difference in weight loss between LAGB group and LSG group was found at 1 year (EWL% p = 0.87; BMI p = 0.32), 3 years (EWL% p = 0.62; BMI p = 0.79) and 5 years (EWL% p = 0.52; BMI p = 0.46) of follow up.ConclusionsBariatric surgery is safe and effective to reach obesity related comorbidities resolution among elderly obese patients. Both LAGB and LSG determine a weight loss lesser than observed in a standard bariatric population. In this study LSG is significantly less cost effective than LAGB. Larger studies with longer follow up are however needed to evaluate the real impact of bariatric surgery on weight loss, resolution of comorbidities and improvement of quality of life in elderly obese patients.Copyright © 2014 Surgical Associates Ltd. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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