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Obese women face no greater risks during gynecologic laparoscopy.(Brief Article)
2002 JUL 18 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- by Maria G. Essig, MS, ELS, senior medical writer - Laparoscopic surgery has been considered more risky for obese than for normal-weight women. However, a study done in Korean women showed that obese women face no greater risk than do lean women.
S. W. Bai and colleagues at Yonsei University performed a retrospective study over 35 months to evaluate the results from laparoscopic surgery done on 277 women. The investigators assigned women to one of two categories: obese (body mass index, BMI, greater than or equal to25 kg/m[superscript]2, n=74) or nonobese (BMI
Characteristics, such as average subject age and number of children borne, menopausal stage, or previous abdominal surgeries, were not significantly different among the groups, with the exceptions of surgical difficulty and adhesion grade. Researchers found that each operation difficulty subgroup contained similar numbers of adhesion grades.
No significant differences were seen between the obese and nonobese groups in the areas of blood lost, operating time, number of surgical complications, complication rates during and after surgery, length of hospital stay, and rate of conversion to laparotomy (Relationship between obesity and the risk of gynecologic laparoscopy in Korean women, Journal of the American Association of Gynecologic Laparoscopists, ...
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