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Purpose: Laparoscopic hepatectomy (LH) is reported to cause less bleeding than open hepatectomy (OH) in obese patients; however, there are no reports addressing this issue in terms of body size-corrected bleeding.
Methods: The subjects of this study were 31 obese and 149 non-obese patients who underwent LH and 32 obese and 245 non-obese patients who underwent OH. Bleeding corrected for body surface area (C-BL) was compared between the obese and non-obese patients who underwent each procedure. A multivariate analysis for increased C-BL was performed using the median C-BL for each procedure.
Results: The median C-BL tended to be higher in the obese patients than in the non-obese patients who underwent LH, but there was no significant difference (72 vs. 42 mL/m, P = 0.050). However, it was significantly higher in the obese patients than in the non-obese patients who underwent OH (542 vs. 333 mL/m, P = 0.002). In a multivariate analysis, for OH, sectionectomy or more (OR 3.20, P < 0.001) and a high BMI (OR 2.76, P = 0.018) were found to be independent risk factors, whereas for LH, a high BMI was not (OR 1.58, P = 0.301).
Conclusions: Obesity was identified as a risk factor for increased bleeding with body size correction for OH, but the risk was reduced for LH.
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Independent Researcher, Outcomes Research, Atlanta, GA, USA.
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Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, The People's Hospital of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region & Research Center of Medical Sciences, Guangxi Academy of Medical Sciences, Nanning, Guangxi, China.
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Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore.
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Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA; Division of Minimally Invasive Gynecologic Surgery, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA. Electronic address:
Objective: To investigate the impact of obesity on surgical outcomes following robotic-assisted transvaginal natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (RA-vNOTES) for hysterectomy.
Design: Retrospective cohort.
Setting: Single academic tertiary care hospital in Houston, Texas, USA.