30-Day Morbidity and Mortality of Bariatric Surgery During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Multinational Cohort Study of 7704 Patients from 42 Countries

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Abstract

BACKGROUND: There are data on the safety of cancer surgery and the efficacy of preventive strategies on the prevention of postoperative symptomatic COVID-19 in these patients. But there is little such data for any elective surgery. The main objectives of this study were to examine the safety of bariatric surgery (BS) during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and to determine the efficacy of perioperative COVID-19 protective strategies on postoperative symptomatic COVID-19 rates.

METHODS: We conducted an international cohort study to determine all-cause and COVID-19-specific 30-day morbidity and mortality of BS performed between 01/05/2020 and 31/10/2020.

RESULTS: Four hundred ninety-nine surgeons from 185 centres in 42 countries provided data on 7704 patients. Elective primary BS (n = 7084) was associated with a 30-day morbidity of 6.76% (n = 479) and a 30-day mortality of 0.14% (n = 10). Emergency BS, revisional BS, insulin-treated type 2 diabetes, and untreated obstructive sleep apnoea were associated with increased complications on multivariable analysis. Forty-three patients developed symptomatic COVID-19 postoperatively, with a higher risk in non-whites. Preoperative self-isolation, preoperative testing for SARS-CoV-2, and surgery in institutions not concurrently treating COVID-19 patients did not reduce the incidence of postoperative COVID-19. Postoperative symptomatic COVID-19 was more likely if the surgery was performed during a COVID-19 peak in that country.

CONCLUSIONS: BS can be performed safely during the COVID-19 pandemic with appropriate perioperative protocols. There was no relationship between preoperative testing for COVID-19 and self-isolation with symptomatic postoperative COVID-19. The risk of postoperative COVID-19 risk was greater in non-whites or if BS was performed during a local peak.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)4272-4288
Number of pages17
JournalObesity surgery
Volume31
Issue number10
Early online date30 Jul 2021
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Oct 2021

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
GVG acknowledges from support the NIHR Birmingham ECMC, NIHR Birmingham SRMRC, Nanocommons H2020-EU (731032), and the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre and the MRC Health Data Research UK (HDRUK/CFC/01), an initiative funded by UK Research and Innovation, Department of Health and Social Care (England) and the devolved administrations, and leading medical research charities.We thank Naomi Campton (Translational Research and DatabaseManager at University of Birmingham) for providing the support withdatabase maintenance and troubleshooting. GENEVA Collaborators, Micha? P?dziwiatr, Piotr Major, Piotr Zarzycki, Athanasios Pantelis, Dimitris P. Lapatsanis, Georgios Stravodimos, Chris Matthys. Marc Focquet, Wouter Vleeschouwers, Antonio G Spaventa, Carlos Zerrweck, Antonio Vitiello, Giovanna Berardi, Mario Musella, Alberto Sanchez-Meza, Felipe J Cantu Jr, Fernando Mora, Marco A Cantu, Abhishek Katakwar, D Nageshwar Reddy, Haitham Elmaleh, Mohammad Hassan, Abdelrahman Elghandour, Mohey Elbanna, Ahmed Osman, Athar Khan, Laurent layani, Nalini kiran, Andrey Velikorechin, Maria Solovyeva, Hamid Melali, Shahab Shahabi, Ashish Agrawal, Apoorv Shrivastava, Ankur Sharma, Bhavya Narwaria, Mahendra Narwaria, Asnat Raziel, Nasser Sakran, Sergio Susmallian, Levent Karag?z, Murat Akbaba, Salih Zeki Pi?kin, Ahmet Ziya Balta, Zafer Senol, Emilio Manno, Michele Giuseppe Iovino, Ahmed Osman, Mohamed Qassem, Sebasti?n Arana-Garza, Heitor P. 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Alkhazraji, Safwan A. Taha, Murat Ustun, Taner Yigit, Aatif Inam, Muhammad Burhanulhaq, Abdolreza Pazouki, Foolad Eghbali, Mohammad Kermansaravi, Amir Hosein Davarpanah Jazi, Mohsen Mahmoudieh, Neda Mogharehabed, Gregory Tsiotos, Konstantinos Stamou, Francisco J. Barrera Rodriguez, Marco A. Rojas Navarro, Omar Mohamed Torres, Sergio Lopez Martinez, Elda Rocio Maltos Tamez, Gustavo A. Millan Cornejo, Jose Eduardo Garcia Flores, Diya Aldeen Mohammed, Mohamad Hayssam Elfawal, Asim Shabbir, Kim Guowei, Jimmy By So, Elif Tu??e Kaplan, Mehmet Kaplan, Tu?ba Kaplan, DangTuan Pham, Gurteshwar Rana, Mojdeh Kappus, Riddish Gadani, Manish Kahitan, Koshish Pokharel, Alan Osborne, Dimitri Pournaras, James Hewes, Errichetta Napolitano, Sonja Chiappetta, Vincenzo Bottino, Evelyn dorado, Axel Schoettler, Daniel Gaertner, Katharina Fedtke, Francisco Aguilar-Espinosa, Saul Aceves-Lozano, Alessandro Balani, Carlo Nagliati, Damiano Pennisi, Andrea Rizzi, Francesco Frattini, Diego Foschi, Laura Benuzzi, Chirag Parikh, Harshil Shah, Enrico Pinotti, Mauro Montuori, Vincenzo Borrelli, Jerome Dargent, Catalin A Copaescu, Ionut Hutopila, Bogdan Smeu, Bart Witteman, Eric Hazebroek, Laura Deden, Laura Heusschen, Sietske Okkema, Theo Aufenacker, Willem den Hengst, Wouter Vening, Yonta van der Burgh, Ahmad Ghazal, Hamza Ibrahim, Mourad Niazi, Bilal Alkhaffaf, Mohammad Altarawni, Giovanni Carlo Cesana, Marco Anselmino, Matteo Uccelli, Stefano Olmi, Christine Stier, Tahsin Akmanlar, Thomas Sonnenberg, Uwe Schieferbein, Alejandro Marcolini, Diego Awruch, Marco Vicentin, Eduardo Lemos de Souza Bastos, Samuel Azenha Gregorio, Anmol Ahuja, Tarun mittal, Roel Bolckmans, Tom Wiggins, Cl?ment Baratte, Judith Aron Wisnewsky, Laurent Genser, Lynn Chong, Lillian Taylor, Salena Ward, Lynn Chong, Lillian Taylor, Michael W Hi, Helen Heneghan, Naomi Fearon, Andreas Plamper, Karl Rheinwalt, Helen Heneghan, Justin Geoghegan, Kin Cheung Ng, Naomi Fearon, Krzysztof Kaseja, Maciej Kotowski, Tarig A Samarkandy, Adolfo Leyva-Alvizo, Lourdes Corzo-Culebro, Cunchuan Wang, Wah Yang, Zhiyong Dong, Manel Riera, Rajesh Jain, Hosam Hamed, Mohammed Said, Katia Zarzar, Manuel Garcia, Ahmet G?khan T?rk?apar, Ozan ?en, Edoardo Baldini, Luigi Conti, Cacio Wietzycoski, Eduardo Lopes, Tadeja Pintar, Jure Salobir, Cengiz Aydin, Semra Demirli Atici, An?l Ergin, Huseyin Ciyiltepe, Mehmet Abdussamet Bozkurt, Mehmet Celal Kizilkaya, Nezihe Berrin Dodur Onalan, Mariana Nabila Binti Ahmad Zuber, Wei Jin Wong, Amador Garcia, Laura Vidal, Marc Beisani, Jorge Pasquier, Ramon Vilallonga, Sharad Sharma, Chetan Parmar, Lyndcie Lee, Pratik Sufi, H?seyin Sinan, Mehmet Saydam

Funding Information:
GVG acknowledges from support the NIHR Birmingham ECMC, NIHR Birmingham SRMRC, Nanocommons H2020-EU (731032), and the NIHR Birmingham Biomedical Research Centre and the MRC Health Data Research UK (HDRUK/CFC/01), an initiative funded by UK Research and Innovation, Department of Health and Social Care (England) and the devolved administrations, and leading medical research charities.We thank Naomi Campton (Translational Research and DatabaseManager at University of Birmingham) for providing the support withdatabase maintenance and troubleshooting.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021, The Author(s).

Keywords

  • Bariatric Surgery
  • COVID-19
  • COVID-19 Testing
  • Cohort Studies
  • Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2
  • Humans
  • Incidence
  • Obesity, Morbid/surgery
  • Pandemics
  • Postoperative Complications/epidemiology
  • SARS-CoV-2

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