A Spanish Society joint SECO and SEEDO approach to the Post-operative management of the patients undergoing surgery for obesity.

Purpose: Bariatric surgery is the method of choice for the management or treatment of obesity. Bariatric surgery brings about several physiological changes in the body and is associated with set of complications. The aim of this study is to provide guidelines on post bariatric surgery management based on consensus by the Spanish society for Obesity Surgery (Sociedad Española de Cirugía de la Obesidad) (SECO) and the Spanish Society for the Study of Obesity (Sociedad Española para el Estudio de la Obesidad) (SEEDO).

[Beginnings of bariatric and metabolic surgery in Spain].

When bariatric and metabolic surgery initially began in Spain, it was a subject of debate, due to not knowing exactly who were the first surgeons to perform it. A study has revealed the authors of the first interventions.

Results of adrenal surgery. Data of a Spanish National Survey.

Purpose: Given the availability of laparoscopy and the rising detection of incidentalomas, indications for adrenalectomy may be changing. The Endocrine Surgery Section of the Spanish Association of Surgeons designed a survey to assess its indications, techniques, and results in Spanish Surgical Departments.

Methods: Collected data included hospital and department type, yearly hospital volume of procedures; location studies and preoperative preparation performed, indications, surgical approach and instruments used, and results in terms of morbidity and overall hospital stay.

Primary closure of laparotomies with high risk of incisional hernia using prosthetic material: analysis of usefulness.

Incisional hernia continues to be a serious postoperative complication in abdominal surgery. We present a prospective randomised study to evaluate the usefulness of placement of a supra-aponeurotic polypropylene mesh in the primary closure of laparotomies with a high risk of incisional hernia. Closure of a vertical laparotomy in 100 patients was accomplished with continuous suture using non-reabsorbable material, with placement of a polypropylene mesh on the aponeurotic surface in 50 patients.