In a new study from the University of Michigan, researchers found compared two of the most common weight-loss surgeries and found that long-term, sleeve gastrectomy is safer than gastric bypass for Medicare patients.
Five years after each procedure, patients who’d undergone a sleeve gastrectomy, which involves removing part of the stomach, had a lower risk of death and complications than those who had chosen to have their stomachs divided into pouches through gastric bypass surgery.
However, gastric bypass was superior in one area: Sleeve gastrectomy patients were more likely to need follow-up surgery, which could indicate that gastric bypass is more effective long-term, even though it carries more risks.
The team says it’s really important for patients to understand the risk of significant issues like death, complications, and hospitalization after these two procedures because that helps inform the decision about which type of bariatric surgery to choose.
When a patient is averse to that risk, even if a sleeve gastrectomy doesn’t confer as much weight loss, the patient may want it because it’s the safer surgery.
On the other hand, if a patient has a lot of comorbidities, and a bypass is going to afford a better clinical benefit, maybe that risk is worth it.
Short-term studies have shown that sleeve gastrectomy is the safer choice, but this study is one of the largest to analyze the outcomes of the two operations over a longer period of time.
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The study is published in JAMA Surgery. One author of the study is Ryan Howard, M.D.
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