Obesity surgery mortality risk score: proposal for a clinically useful score to predict mortality risk in patients undergoing gastric bypass

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 134-140

  DeMaria, Eric J ^a,b   Portenier, Dana ^b   Wolfe, Luke ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Complications of bariatric surgery; Gastric bypass; Mortality; Preoperative risk assessment; Scoring system

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOVENTILATION; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; THROMBOSIS; UNIVARIATE ANALYSIS; VENA CAVA FILTER;

BODY MASS INDEX; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; LAPAROTOMY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; VIRGINIA;

EID: 33947415757     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2007.01.005     Document Type: Article

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