Propensity score matching analysis of short-term outcomes in robotic ventral hernia repair for patients with a body mass index above and below 35 kg/m2.

Omar Yusef Kudsi Fahri Gokcal Karen Chang

Published in: Hernia : the journal of hernias and abdominal wall surgery (2019)

RVHR in class-II and class-III obese patients is safe, feasible, and effective. In addition to this, it has comparable short-term outcomes with those non-obese and class-I obese patients.

Keyphrases

obese patients
bariatric surgery
body mass index
gastric bypass
roux en y gastric bypass
weight loss
spinal cord
weight gain
minimally invasive
physical activity
robot assisted
type diabetes
spinal cord injury