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ANNALS OF PLASTIC SURGERY
Volume 61, Issue 3, Pages 235-242Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/SAP.0b013e318166d351
Keywords
abdominal contouring; weight loss surgery; wound complications; body mass index; ASA class
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- Department of Plastic Surgery, Vanderbilt University
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Abdominal contouring operations are in high demand after massive weight loss. Anecdotally, wound problems seemed to occur frequently in this patient Population. Our Study was designed to delineate risk factors for wound complications after body contouring. Our retrospective institutional analysis was assembled from 222 patients between 2001 and 2006 who underwent either abdominoplasty (N = 89) or panniculectomy (N = 133). Weight loss surgery (WLS) before body Contouring occurred in 63% Of Our patients. Overall the wound complication rate in these patients was 34%: healing-disturbance 11%, Wound infection 12%, hematoma 6%, and seroma 14%. WLS patients had all increase in wound complications overall (41%, vs. 22%; P < 0.01) and in all categories of wound complications compared with non-WLS-patients by univariate methods of analysis. In a multivariate regression model, only American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification was a significant independent risk factor for wound complications. In conclusion, WLS patients are at increased risk for wound complications and American Society of Anesthesiologists Physical Status Classification is the most predictive of risk.
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