The Success of Laparoscopic Bariatric Surgeryt HasCome of Age and It Is Safe

摘要

Weller and Rosati1 used the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, an administrative, population-based database, to determine whether mortality, morbidity, duration of hospital stay, and total (inpatient) hospital charges differ between open and laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB) procedures. Importantly, this study examined this question in 2005, which will become important (see below)