The utility of endoscopy prior to bariatric surgery: an 11-year retrospective analysis of 885 patients.
Bariatric surgery
Endoscopy
Esophagogastroduodenoscopy
GERD
Preoperative
Journal
Surgical endoscopy
ISSN: 1432-2218
Titre abrégé: Surg Endosc
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 8806653
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
04 2023
04 2023
Historique:
received:
21
03
2022
accepted:
13
07
2022
medline:
11
4
2023
pubmed:
9
8
2022
entrez:
8
8
2022
Statut:
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Résumé
Our aim was to evaluate the diagnostic yield of routine preoperative esophagogastroduodenoscopy (p-EGD) in patients undergoing bariatric surgery. Many medical problems that are common in patients with obesity, including gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and hiatal hernias, have important implications for patients undergoing bariatric surgery. While p-EGD is considered standard of care prior to antireflux surgery, the role of p-EGD in bariatric surgery patients remains controversial. We performed a retrospective chart review of 885 patients who underwent primary bariatric surgery at a university hospital-based bariatric surgery program between March 2011 and February 2022. Clinical history, demographics, and preoperative EGD reports were reviewed for abnormal findings. Of the 885 patients evaluated in this study, one or more abnormal EGD findings were observed in 83.2% of patients. More than half of our patients (54.7%) presented with history of heartburn, reflux, or GERD. EGD findings demonstrated a hernia in 43.1% of patients [(Type I: 40.6%; Type II: 0.5%; Type III: 2.1%)]. 68.0% of patients were biopsied. Among patients who were biopsied, other findings included gastritis (32.4%), esophagitis (8.0%), eosinophilic esophagitis (4.7%), or duodenitis (2.7%). We found ulcers in 6.7% of patients. Pathology was consistent with H. pylori in 9.8% of biopsies taken and consistent with BE in 2.7%. Following routine p-EGD, 11.2% of patients were placed on PPI and 8.3% were recommended to stop NSAIDs. Gastroesophageal reflux disease and associated pathology are common in the bariatric population. Preoperative EGD in patients undergoing bariatric surgery frequently identifies clinically significant UGI pathology. This may have important implications for medical and surgical management. Given the rate of abnormal preoperative endoscopic findings in obese patients, the work-up for bariatric surgery should align with the current recommendations for foregut surgery.
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pubmed: 35941309
doi: 10.1007/s00464-022-09485-3
pii: 10.1007/s00464-022-09485-3
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