In a video review of surgeons performing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy procedures, certain techniques were associated with better or worse outcomes, regardless of skill, researchers reported.
In a comparison of video operations performed by 30 different surgeons on nearly 7,000 patients with morbid obesity, Karan Chhabra, MD, of Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston, and colleagues assessed surgeons’ varying technical approaches in dissecting the proximal stomach, sleeve caliber, sleeve anatomy, staple line reinforcement, and leak testing.
