With the growing incidence of morbid obesity worldwide and laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy
as the most common bariatric procedure performed worldwide for a decade now, it is
estimated that well over 1 million sleeves have been performed since its inception
[
[1]
]. Despite sleeve leak rates having decreased nearly 10-fold to a low prevalence of
.1%, they remain the most common, serious, and challenging complication and translate
to more than 1000 leaks that have been managed [
[2]
]. First-line management has included endoscopic techniques such as stenting, drainage,
and clipping, or a combination thereof [
[3]
]. For those that fail endoscopic interventions, described surgical techniques include
Roux-en-Y gastric bypass (RYGB), fistula-jejunostomy, and esophagojejunostomy (EJ)
with leak rates of 38%, 22%, and 8%, respectively. High leak rates as a consequence
of treating a leak are particularly disheartening and beg the question of whether
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Published online: February 11, 2023
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