Obesity and postoperative early complications in open heart surgery

Purpose We investigated the distribution of early clinical outcomes among normal, obese, and morbidly obese patients undergoing open heart surgery. Methods Medical records of 1,000 patients undergoing open heart surgery since February 2011 at our hospital were investigated retrospectively after perm...

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Published in:Journal of anesthesia 2012-10, Vol.26 (5), p.702-710
Main Authors: Demir, Aslı, Aydınlı, Bahar, Güçlü, Çiğdem Yıldırım, Yazıcıoğlu, Hija, Saraç, Ahmet, Elhan, Atilla H., Erdemli, Özcan
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Anesthesiology
Body Mass Index
Cardiac Surgical Procedures - adverse effects
Cardiac Surgical Procedures - methods
Cardiac Surgical Procedures - statistics & numerical data
Care and treatment
Complications and side effects
Critical Care Medicine
Development and progression
Emergency Medicine
Female
Health aspects
Humans
Hypertension
Intensive
Male
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Middle Aged
Obesity
Obesity, Morbid - epidemiology
Obesity, Morbid - physiopathology
Obesity, Morbid - surgery
Original Article
Pain Medicine
Patient outcomes
Postoperative Complications - epidemiology
Postoperative Complications - etiology
Retrospective Studies
Risk Factors
Treatment Outcome
Turkey - epidemiology
Young Adult
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Summary:Purpose We investigated the distribution of early clinical outcomes among normal, obese, and morbidly obese patients undergoing open heart surgery. Methods Medical records of 1,000 patients undergoing open heart surgery since February 2011 at our hospital were investigated retrospectively after permission was obtained from the Council of Education Planning of the hospital. The comorbidities and perioperative and discharge data were analyzed for 279 patients with a body mass index (BMI) score between 18 and
ISSN:0913-8668
1438-8359
DOI:10.1007/s00540-012-1393-7