Sleeve Gastrectomy: Faliure or success as a one stage procedure

Aims: Sleeve gastrectomy (SG) is rapidly gaining popularity around the world as part of a 2 stage or as a one stage treatment of obesity. Many surgeons are advocating SG as a single definitive type of surgery for severely obese patients. The purpose of this study was to analyze the results with all SG patients operated at the University of Freiburg to determine the rate at which it can be expected that SG can function as a single definitive surgical procedure as compared to the number that require transition to the second stage of the procedure. Further on it was evaluated to which extent preoperative eating hab…