Table 3.
Details of complications from all studies.
| Author | Overall morbidity n (%) | Anastomotic leak n (%) | Anastomotic bleeding n (%) | Anastomotic stricture n (%) | ||||
| Standard suture | Barbed suture | Standard suture | Barbed suture | Standard suture | Barbed suture | Standard suture | Barbed suture | |
| Bracale20 | 19 (48) | 18 (45) | 1 (3) | 1 (3) | 2 (5) | 3 (8) | – | – |
| Costantino16 | 2 (3) | 19 (9) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (0.5) | 1 (1) | 3 (1) |
| De Blasi17 | – | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Feroci21 | 10 (21) | 5 (11) | 1 (2) | 1 (2) | – | – | – | – |
| Gys14 | – | – | 0 | 1 (1) | 4 (4) | 0 | – | – |
| Milone15 | – | – | 1 (3) | 1 (3) | 1 (3) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Pennestri:18 | ||||||||
| LRYGB | 9 (4) | 8 (3) | 2 (1) | 0 | 2 (1) | 3 (1) | 0 | 0 |
| SAGB | 1 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Tyner19 | 7 (18) | 6 (13) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Vidarsson22 | – | – | 319 (1.4) | 39 (1.8) | – | – | 32 (0.17) | 2 (0.13) |