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Published in final edited form as: N Engl J Med. 2020 Oct 15;383(16):1535–1543. doi: 10.1056/NEJMoa2002449

Table 3.

Deaths and Complications during the First 90 Days after Bariatric Surgery in the SOS Study.

Adverse Event	Surgery Group (N = 2007)
	no. of patients (%)
Death	5 (0.2)
Pulmonary event	89 (4.4)
Thromboembolism	16 (0.8)
Vomiting	61 (3.0)
Wound infection	43 (2.1)
Other infection	28 (1.4)
Hemorrhage	26 (1.3)
Anastomotic leak, peritonitis, or abscess	30 (1.5)
Ileus	10 (0.5)
Wound dehiscence	14 (0.7)
Other complication	21 (1.0)
At least one complication	292 (14.5)
Repeat surgery during the first 90 days	59 (2.9)