Les nouvelles indications de chirurgie laparoscopique ambulatoire - la sleeve gastrectomie

Bariatric surgery improves patients' outcome. Sleeve gastrectomy is a simple, short duration, surgical procedure, with very few postoperative complications (gastric fistula 3%; postoperative hemorrhage less than 5%), that can be performed in an ambulatory setting. Postoperative management is indeed simplified by the lack of gastric tube placement, drainage and systematic radiologic control. Analysis of recent cohort studies really documents a high degree of patients' satisfaction with a very low incidence of complications and very few failures of ambulatory management. The development of ambulatory surgery for sleeve gastrectomy needs to be suppported.