Two-stage surgery to repair a dissecting abdominal aortic aneurysm in a severely obese patient: Open bifurcated graft replacement after laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy

Yoshihiro Shioi, Akira Sasaki, Hiroyuki Nitta, Akira Umemura, Shigeaki Baba, Takeshi Iwaya, Yusuke Kimura, Koki Otsuka, Keisuke Koeda, Masaru Mizuno, Kazuya Kumagai, Takeshi Kamada, Masayuki Mukaida, Hitoshi Okabayashi

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Abstract

With the increasing prevalence of severe obesity worldwide, surgical treatment for severely obese patients is becoming more popular. Bariatric surgery has occasionally been performed as a precursor to major operations for serious diseases to make these difficult surgeries safer for severely obese patients. We present the case of a severely obese patient with a dissected abdominal aortic aneurysm and left iliac artery aneurysm. Initially, we performed bariatric surgery on this patient to reduce perioperative risk and then subsequently performed bifurcated graft replacement. A 54-year-old man presented at our hospital for bariatric surgery before open abdominal aortic aneurysm repair. Laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy was performed; 15 months later, the patient's weight and BMI had decreased from 139.0 kg to 97.6 kg and from 48.7 kg/m(2) to 34.2 kg/m(2) , respectively. Bifurcated graft replacement was performed safely without postoperative complications. Bariatric surgery was also effective in controlling the patient's blood pressure during the interval between surgeries.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)149-151
Number of pages3
JournalAsian journal of endoscopic surgery
Volume9
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 01-05-2016
Externally publishedYes

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Gastroenterology
  • Surgery

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