Clinical and surgical profiles of patients submitted to plastic surgery procedures after bariatric surgery in a public hospital in Brazil's Midwest.

INTRODUCTION

Patients who undergo to gastroplasty present massive weight loss and the plastic surgery represents an important play in the treatment. The aim of this study is to present the profile of patients who underwent plastic surgery after bariatric surgery performed at the Reference Public Hospital in West-Center of Brazil.

METHODS

A descriptive, analytical and retrospective study was performed in a single public hospital on patients who underwent post-bariatric plastic surgery from January 2011 to December 2023. Three hundred and sixteen patients who underwent plastic surgery following Roux-Y gastroplasty were studied. Measures included BMI (body mass index) before gastroplasty and before plastic surgery, medical complications and comorbidities.

RESULTS

316 patients (297 female, 19 male) with a mean age of 43 years underwent 268 separated operations. The average BMI at the time of plastic surgery was 27,39kg/m2 . Average weight loss was 47,44kg and mean pre-weight loss BMI (max BMI) was 45,5kg/m2 .The most important preplastic comorbities were: arterial hypertension (12,7%), degenerative artrophaty (7,0%), diabete melito (5,7%) and methabolic syndrom (4,4%). From 316 patients operated, 75,7% were underwent abdominoplasty followed by mammaplasy (41,4%), ritidoplasty (12,0%), and brachioplasty (12,0%). Thirty-nine (12,3%) patients had hernia repair in combination with abdominoplasty. The complication rate was 31,3%.

CONCLUSION

Epidemiological profile of postbariatric patients who underwent body contour surgery showed peculiar clinical, anthropometric and surgical aspects, specially the low prevelence of comorbidities, the low number of associated surgeries and rate of postoperative complications in the group studied.