Bariatric Surgery Conversions at a Revisional Referral Center: A Subset Analysis of Clinical Outcomes from a Rural Community Hospital Accredited Program

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o   Purpose and Significance of Study: This retrospective study offers a subset analysis of the primary and secondary clinical outcomes of bariatric surgery conversions or revisions performed by a single surgeon in a rural community hospital. Although there are multiple limitations of the study, its significance lies in that revisional bariatric surgeries are a technically demanding superspeciality with high rate of complications and are mostly reported from urban centers rather than the technically limited rural ones.

o   Fit with Scope of Journal: The manuscript is of high interest for the journal International Journal of Surgical Case Reports.

o   The Discussion provides a thorough analysis of the outcomes, adequately lays down the limitations of the study and elaborates on the takeaway from the results of this study.

o   The manuscript is mostly well-written. It contains a few minor errors (already corrected in the galley proof) listed below –

 

·       Words like “preoperative”, “comorbidity”, “workup” and “cytoprotection” must be written without hyphens.

·       In the 1^st sentence of the 2^nd paragraph of the Introduction, “have” must be replaced with “has”.

·       In the 1^st sentence of the 1^st paragraph of the Results, “the” before “total” must be replaced with “a”, and throughout the text, “a” before “SG” and “RYGB” must be replaced with “an”.

·       In the last sentence of the 1^st paragraph of the Discussion, “the” before “robotic” must be removed, and in the 4^th sentence of the 3^rd paragraph of the Discussion, “the” before “hospitalization” must be removed.

·       In the 1^st sentence of the 1^st paragraph of the discussion, “that is” must be removed, in the 2^nd sentence of the 1^st paragraph of the Discussion, “of” before “from” must be removed, and in the 3^rd sentence of the 1^st paragraph of the Discussion, “where” before “resources” must be removed.

·       In the 1^st sentence of the 8^th paragraph of the discussion, the sentence must end after “(5.6%)”.

Author Info

Rodolfo J. Oviedo

Corresponding Author

Rodolfo J. Oviedo
Texas Bariatric Specialists, San Antonio, Texas, USA

Article Info

Article Type

Research Article

Publication history

Received: Mon 06, Jul 2020
Accepted: Wed 15, Jul 2020
Published: Sat 25, Jul 2020

Copyright

© 2023 Rodolfo J. Oviedo. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.IJSCR.2020.03.04