Table 4.
Short-term and long-term complications
| SADI-S N = 63 (%) |
RYGB N = 78 (%) |
Total N = 141 (%) |
P-value | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Short-term complications (<30 days) | 5 (7.9%) | 7 (9.0%) | 12 (8.2%) | .826 |
| Readmission | 4 | 5 | 9 | |
| Abdominal pain/fever | 2 | 3 | ||
| Deep vein thrombosis | 1 | |||
| Wound infection | 1 | |||
| Persistent nausea | 1 | |||
| Hematemesis | 1 | |||
| Reoperation | 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| Abscess | 1 | |||
| Anastomic leakage | 1 | |||
| Other1 | 1 | |||
| Long-term complications (>30 days–5 years) | 10 (15.9%) | 21 (26.9%) | 31 (22.0%) | .115 |
| Readmission | 2 | 3 | 5 | |
| Stenosis2 | 4 | 4 | ||
| Reoperation | 8 | 14 | 22 | |
| Internal herniation | 2 | 7 | ||
| Cicatricial herniation | 1 | 2 | ||
| Revisional surgery | 3 | 1 | ||
| Re-sleeve | 2 | |||
| Anastomic leakage3 | 1 | |||
| Other1 | 4 | |||
| Mortality | 0 | 0 | 0 |
N number of patients, SADI-S single anastomosis duodenoileal bypass, RYGB Roux-en-Y gastric bypass
1Other: most common diagnostic laparoscopy for suspicion of internal herniation
2Stenosis successfully treated with balloon dilatation in three cases and surgically in one case
3Anastomic leakage after re-sleeve operation