Bariatric-surgery patients with low fitness levels experienced longer operative times and suffered more post-surgery complications, a U.S. study finds.
“Random complications may occur during bariatric surgery,” said Dr. Peter A. McCullough of William Beaumont Hospital in Royal Oak, Mich. “However, complications may become more apparent in patients with low levels of cardiopulmonary fitness, because they have very little pulmonary reserve and have reduced ability to withstand surgery.”
Included in the study were 109 morbidly obese patients, 75 percent women, with a mean body mass index of 48.7.
Those with the highest BMIs were seven times more likely to experience primary complications such as death, unstable angina, deep vein thrombosis, pulmonary embolism, renal failure and/or stroke.
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