Risks of Bariatric Surgery Among Patients With End-stage Renal Disease

2] While the association between bariatric surgery and longterm weight loss and comorbidity improvement among obese patients with ESRD is well established, surgery is underused in this population owing to perceptions of unacceptable increased perioperative risk. Perioperative risks of bariatric surgery among obese patients with ESRD are poorly characterized, with limited studies that may not detect rare events. In this context, we performed an analysis of perioperative safety of bariatric surgery in obese patients with ESRD using a national registry capturing greater than 95% of bariatric operations. Methods | Patients who underwent primary, laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy or roux-en-Y gastric bypass between 2015 and 2017 Figure.