Volumen 30 No. 2 (2012)

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Gastrectomía vertical
(Universidad de Cuenca, 2012-06) Astudillo Molina, Rubén Arturo; Uriguen Jerves, Juan Alejandro; Serrano Hinojosa, Bolívar Eugenio
Bariatric Surgery has been consolidated globally as a valid way to treat the disease of morbid obesity and its co-morbidities, long term is the single best therapeutic option for these objectives; with the advent of the surgery minimum invasive has spread over this treatment alternative. In the clinic Latin of the city of Cuenca, from January, 2009 to October 2010 to 30 patients underwent a laparoscopic vertical gastrectomy correct obesity; (BMI) body mass index was among the 35 to 41 kg/m2 with an average of 37.7 kg/m2; the age range is between 29 and 59 and 83% of these were women, 3.3% underwent conversion to conventional surgery, there were no morbidity or postoperative mortality; a year of tracking BMI decreased by 10 points. Vertical gastrectomy is surgery that does not produce malabsorption, has a short learning, low postoperative morbidity and mortality curve and the results of our study are consistent with those presented by other authors of the consulted international literature; for these reasons, we believe that laparoscopic vertical gastrectomy is a superb surgical laternativa for treating obesity.