Publications by authors named "W F van Tets"
Background: There is an overall complication rate of 6.3%-10% after bariatric surgery. After ruling out anatomic/physical causes, there is a substantial group of patients who develop unexplained postsurgical abdominal pain.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Around 20% of bariatric surgery patients develop a short- or long-term complication.
Objective: Aim of this study was to develop a risk model predicting complications: the Bariatric Surgery Index for Complications (BASIC).
Setting: The Obesity Center Amsterdam, located in a large teaching hospital, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Background: The Obesity Surgery Mortality Risk Score (OS-MRS) is a validated instrument for mortality risk prediction in patients undergoing laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (LRYGB) procedures classifying patients into low risk (class A), intermediate risk (class B), and high risk (class C).
Objectives: The primary aim of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of the OS-MRS in predicting postoperative complications after LRYGB. Secondarily, the postoperative complication rate between primary and revisional LRYGB was systematically analyzed.
Background: Marginal ulceration at the gastrojejunostomy is a serious complication after laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass surgery (LRYGB) and occurs in 1%-16% of patients. Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) might lower the occurrence of these ulcers.
Objectives: The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of 6 months prophylactic usage of PPIs on the development of marginal ulceration and compare this with a historic patient control group.