This paper reviews reoperations rates for short- and long-term complications following secondary bariatric procedures and need for further bariatric surgery. The search revealed 28 papers (1317 secondary cases) following at least 75 % of patients for 12 months or more. For adjustable gastric banding (AGB), rebanding had higher re-revisional rates than conversions into other procedures. Conversion of AGB to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass had the highest number of short- (10.7 %) and long-term (22.0 %) complications. We estimated 194 additional reoperations per 1000 patients having a secondary procedure, 8.8 % needing tertiary surgery. Despite being poorly reported, risks of reoperations for long-term complications and tertiary bariatric surgery are higher than usually reported risks of short-term complications and should be taken into account when choosing a secondary bariatric procedure and for economic evaluations.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Reoperations, Complications, Secondary surgery
Research Division:	Medical and Health Sciences
Research Group:	Clinical Sciences
Research Field:	Surgery
Objective Division:	Health
Objective Group:	Clinical Health (Organs, Diseases and Abnormal Conditions)
Objective Field:	Surgical Methods and Procedures
UTAS Author:	Kuzminov, A (Mr Alexandr Kuzminov)
UTAS Author:	Palmer, AJ (Professor Andrew Palmer)
UTAS Author:	Venn, AJ (Professor Alison Venn)
ID Code:	109396
Year Published:	2016
Web of Science® Times Cited:	10
Deposited By:	Menzies Institute for Medical Research
Deposited On:	2016-06-14
Last Modified:	2017-11-01
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