2005 SAGES Abstracts

POSTER ABSTRACTS
SAGES 2005
of 57.42 and 55.84 respectively. The two groups of patients
were homogeneous for age and sex and incidence of comorbidities.
Results
At the end of the study period there was no statistically significant
difference in the incidence of arthropathy, diabetes, osas,
hypertension, dislipidemia between the two groups, while the
hyperinsulinemia was higher in the BIB group of patients.
Excess weight loss averaged 26.6% in the sleeve gastrectomy
group and 21.5 % in the BIB group (n.s.).
Conclusions
Malabsorption surgery seems to be the most effective treatment
for severe obesity. In BPD-DS surgery the two-stage tecnique
lowers morbility and mortality by inducing a significant
excess weight loss and decreases incidence of comorbidities
during the time period between first and second stage. The
preliminary results of this study suggest that similar results
may be obtained by the BIB placement. A prospective study
comparing results in BPD-DS (two stages) and preoperative
BIB followed by BPD-DS in one stage may be of interest.
P051–Bariatric Surgery
INITIATING A BARIATRIC SURGERY FELLOWSHIP TRAINING
PROGRAM: IMPACT ON OPERATIVE OUTCOMES, Rodrigo
Gonzalez MD, Lana G Nelson MD,Sharon Boback,Michel M
Murr MD, Department of Surgery, University of South Florida,
Tampa, FL , USA.
BACKGROUND: Both open (ORYGB) and laparoscopic (LRYGB)
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass have long learning curves, which
may reflect on operative outcomes when initiating fellowship
training programs. The aim of this study was to assess
whether training a fellow has any impact on operative outcomes.
METHODS: We reviewed prospectively collected data
on the last 130 consecutive patients before (Group 1) and 130
patients after initiating the fellowship program (Group 2).
Patient demographics, operative data, and outcomes were
compared between groups using either Mann-Whitney U-test
or Fisher’s exact test. Linear regression was used to correlate
between number of operation in our experience and operative
times. A p