Digestive Interventional Endoscopy and Surgical Treatment for Gastric Leaks after Sleeve Gastrectomy for Obesity

Seance of monday 06 may 2013 (URGENCES CHIRURGICALES (14th Congrès ECTES) European Congress of Trauma and Emergency Surgery)

Abstract

Purpose of study. Retrospective monocenter study to compare respective place of surgical treatment and digestive international endoscopy after 2009 for gastric leaks after sleeve gastrectomy (SG) for obesity. Material and method. 2119 patients operated between 01.04.2003 to 31.12.2012 aged 18 to 72 with BMI 35 to 61. 93% women. 1971 SG alone and 148 SG with biliopancreatic diversion (BPD). Mortality 0.2%. Morbidity 7.5% with 5.5% gastric leaks (117 cases).First treatment. 9 blind fistulas medicaly treated (7%). 66 early fistulas with peritonitis or big abscess surgically treated (56.8%). 42 secondary fistulas with small abscess surgicaly treated (8 cases) and endoscopically treated (34 cases) after 2009.Secondary treatment. 74 surgically treated fistulas (66 and 8), 25 cases exclusively surgically treated with 1 to 3 procedures and 5 chronic evolution (20%) and 49 cases systematically secondary endoscopically treated. 83 fistulas endoscopically treated (34 first and 49 secondary) with 1 to 3 complementary procedures and 2 chronic evolution (2.4%).Results. 1 death. 101 recoveries (86.3%). 79 in 3 to 6 months (67.5%). 22 in 6 to 12 months (18.8%). 8 temporary fealures (6.8%). 7 chronic evolution (5.9%), 5 after surgical treatment (20%) and 2 after primary or secondary endoscopically treatment (2.4%).Discussion. Pathogeny, anatomoclinic aspects, preventive recomandations, medical and surgical treatment of gastric leaks are revised.Conclusion. After gastric leaks, the digestive interventional endoscopy as second systematically procedure after surgical treatment for peritonitis or big abscess or as first procedure for small abscess is more effective than surgical treatment only and better accepted by the patients, reducing clearly a chronic evolution.