Objective: to analyse clinical and epidemiological characteristics, postoperative complications, and weight loss in patients undergoing conventional vertical gastrectomy in a hospital under Brazil's Public Health System (SUS).
Methods: cross-sectional longitudinal retrospective study based on data collection from medical records for variable analysis in patients undergoing open vertical gastrectomy in SUS, from July 2013 to January 2017.
Results: we analysed 296 patients operated on during the study period, of which 54% were male.