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Reduced-Port Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbidly Obese Japanese Patients: a Retrospective Case-Matched Study

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Background

Reduced-port laparoscopic surgery remains controversial due to technical challenges that can lead to suboptimal outcomes, and data pertaining to operative and clinical outcomes of reduced-port sleeve gastrectomy (RPSG) vs. conventional laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (CLSG) are lacking.

Aims

This retrospective case-matched study aimed to compare midterm (2-year) outcomes of RPSG and of CLSG.

Methods

Patients included in the study had undergone laparoscopic bariatric surgery at our center between 2010 and 2017. Thirty-one consecutive female patients who underwent RPSG were compared to a sex-, age-, body mass index–matched group of 31 patients who underwent CLSG. Outcomes were evaluated and compared between groups.

Results

Estimated blood loss volume, incidences of intraoperative and postoperative complications, and length of postoperative hospital stay did not differ significantly between the 2 groups. Operation time was significantly greater in the RPSG group than in the CLSG group (148.7 ± 22.6 vs. 120.2 ± 25.9 min, respectively; p < 0.001). Excess weight loss at 1 year was 105.9% and 109.7%, respectively (p = 0.94) and at 2 years was 101.1% and 105.3%, respectively (p = 0.64). One RPSG patient required placement of additional trocars because of bleeding from short gastric vessels, but conversion to open surgery was not required.

Conclusions

RPSG is feasible in carefully selected bariatric patients and results in midterm outcomes comparable to those observed after CLSG. Good cosmesis is a potential benefit of RPSG.

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The authors thank Prof. Tina Tajima for her assistance in presenting our findings in English.

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  1. Weight loss and Metabolic Surgery Center, Yotsuya Medical Cube, 7-7 Nibancho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, 102-0084, Japan

    Manabu Amiki, Yosuke Seki, Kazunori Kasama, Michiko Kitagawa, Akiko Umezawa & Yoshimochi Kurokawa

  2. Ramdev Rao Memorial General Hospital, Sivananda Rehabilitation Home, National Highway No. 65 Metro Pillar No. 34, Kukutpally Hyderabad, Telangana, 500072, India

    Srinivasulu Pachimatla

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Amiki, M., Seki, Y., Kasama, K. et al. Reduced-Port Sleeve Gastrectomy for Morbidly Obese Japanese Patients: a Retrospective Case-Matched Study. OBES SURG 29, 3291–3298 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-019-03987-1

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