NCT01063959

Sleeve Gastrectomy Versus Gastric Bypass for Private Pay Patients Seeking Obesity Surgery

Advantages of Sleeve Gastrectomy Over Gastric Bypass for Private Pay Patients Seeking Obesity Surgery

• Status: Withdrawn
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 0 (actual)
• Sponsor: Pennington Biomedical Research Center · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

The purpose of this study is to determine laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy is a safer surgery than the gastric bypass, gives similar weight losses and that the safety of gastric in private pay patients versus insurance patients will be similar. This is a retrospective chart review of intervention charts.

Detailed description

This study is a retrospective chart review of 800 intervention charts each for consecutive laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomies compared to consecutive laparoscopic gastric bypasses performed by two surgeons in a Louisiana private practice. This retrospective chart review will evaluate the safety of the two procedures during the operative and 6-week post-operative periods, compare the insurance patients to the private pay patients having the gastric bypass, and comparative weight loss in subjects with a follow-up of at least 18 months. This offers the unique opportunity to compare any differences in surgical complications in subjects paying by insurance versus those paying personally for the gastric bypass operation.

Conditions

• Morbid Obesity

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy	Sleeve Gastrectomy was originally reported as the first step in an alternative two-staged procedure for the super obese patient to decrease morbidity, predominantly private pay.
PROCEDURE	Laparoscopic Gastric Bypass	Presently, the laparoscopically performed gastric bypass accounts for 80% of obesity surgery in the United States, predominantly covered by insurance.

Timeline

• Start date: 2010-02-01
• Primary completion: 2013-06-01
• Completion: 2013-06-01
• First posted: 2010-02-05
• Last updated: 2015-12-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States