Complicated course after sleeve gastrectomy for obesity.

ABSTRACT

The authors present a case of a 52-year old female patient with sleeve gastrectomy for obesity. Two major complications occured after the surgery. The first one was a leakage on the third day after the surgery. The routine swallow examination on the first day after the surgery was normal. The pathological secretion from the drainage occurred on the third day after the surgery with a simultaneous increase in inflammatory markers. There were no clinical signs of sepsis. An indication for laparoscopic revision was done and a small defect in the staple line was identified. The oversewing of the small defect on the stomach was performed. Immediately after the second surgery the patient was clinicaly without any problems. The inflammatory markers decreased promptly after the surgery. The second complication was presented with decompensated psychosis, which developed on the 4th day after the second surgery. The patient complained of problems with swallowing despite the fact that the swallow contrast examination was normal. The patient received her psychiatric medication intravenously. The problem with swallowing was not based on any organic reason, and lasted for 4 weeks. During this period the patient was fed only parenterally. Almost 6 weeks after the surgery the patient became compensated and was dismissed. We would like to point out to the problems potentially occuring in patients with a psychiatric disease. Good compensation and stabilization of psychiatric disease is a condition that has to be met before a surgery (Tab. 1, Fig. 1, Ref. 21).