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Relationship between obesity and the risk of gynecologic laparoscopy in korean woman

Authors
 Sang Wook Bai  ;  Jae Hak Lim  ;  Jung Yeon Kim  ;  Kyung Ah Chung  ;  Sei Kwang Kim  ;  Ki Hyun Park 
Citation
 JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GYNECOLOGIC LAPAROSCOPISTS , Vol.9(2) : 165-169, 2002 
Journal Title
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF GYNECOLOGIC LAPAROSCOPISTS
ISSN
 1074-3804 
Issue Date
2002
MeSH
Adult ; Body Mass Index ; Female ; Gynecologic Surgical Procedures/methods* ; Humans ; Laparoscopy* ; Obesity* ; Retrospective Studies ; Risk
Abstract
Study Objective
To determine whether obesity increases risk of performing laparoscopic gynecologic surgery in Korean women.

Design
Retrospective analysis over 35 consecutive months (Canadian Task Force classification II-2).

Setting
University-affiliated hospital.

Patients
Two hundred seventy-seven women who underwent gynecologic laparoscopic surgery.

Intervention

Patients were analyzed by chart review.

Measurements and Main Results

Obesity was defined as body mass index (BMI) 25 kg/m2 or greater. Patients were categorized on the basis of BMI [weight (kg)/height2 (m2)] as obese (BMI ≥ 25, 74 women) or nonobese (BMI <25, 203). Each group was further divided into three subgroups according to operation difficulty. No significant differences in patient age, parity, menopausal status, medicosurgical illness, or history of intraabdominal surgery were apparent between groups, except for distribution of operation difficulty and adhesion grade; however, the adhesion grade was evenly distributed in each operation grade subgroup. In the two BMI groups, no significant differences were seen in surgical values (estimated blood loss, operating time, operative complications, postoperative complications, hospital stay, rate of conversion to laparotomy).

Conclusion

Obesity had generally been thought to increase the risk of laparoscopic surgery. In our study in obese Korean women, however, it did not seem to increase the risk, and gynecologic laparoscopic surgery was performed safely.
Full Text
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1074380405601259
DOI
10.1016/S1074-3804(05)60125-9
Appears in Collections:
1. College of Medicine (의과대학) > Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology (산부인과학교실) > 1. Journal Papers
Yonsei Authors
Kim, Sei Kwang(김세광)
Bai, Sang Wook(배상욱) ORCID logo https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7724-7552
URI
https://ir.ymlib.yonsei.ac.kr/handle/22282913/144065
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