Clinical Trial: Post-bariatric Abdominoplasty: Skin Sensation Evaluation

Study Status: Completed
Recruit Status: Completed
Study Type: Interventional

Official Title: Post-bariatric Abdominoplasty: Skin Sensation Evaluation.

Brief Summary:

The purpose of this study is to quantify the skin sensation of the anterior abdominal wall of the post-bariatric patients submitted to anchor-line abdominoplasty without flap undermining.

Additional purposes were: quantify topographically the abdominal skin sensation of the Normal weight, Morbid Obese and Former Morbid Obese after bariatric surgery (before and after the abdominoplasty - excess skin surgical removal without flap undermining -> Anchor Line Abdominoplasty).

Detailed Summary:

Abdominoplasty performed in post-bariatric patients presents more post-operative complications than in non post-bariatric patients. Surgical techniques that provokes less complications are required.

Anchor-line abdominoplasty is a technique published in the years 1950 as well the first bariatric proceedings. Abdominoplasty without flap undermining is feasible in pendular abdominal wall of the former morbidly obese women with scarred abdomen.

Classical abdominoplasty (with flap undermining) is known to impair significantly the skin sensation. Post-bariatric abdominoplasty without flap undermining keeps the skin sensation unaltered since the early post-operative period.

Now that the post-bariatric anchor-line abdominoplasty improves the abdominal wall contour by removing the exceeding, pendular and striated skin saving the perforant skin sensory nerves. Could this technique improve the skin sensation of the anterior abdominal wall of the post-bariatric patients?

Sponsor: Federal University of São Paulo

Current Primary Outcome: Innocuous static tactile sensation in grams per square millimeters (g/mm2) by nylon monofilaments aesthesiometer. [ Time Frame: Day before the surgical intervention and 6th month after for Study group. ]

Original Primary Outcome: Same as current

Current Secondary Outcome:

Original Secondary Outcome:

Information By: Federal University of São Paulo

Dates:
Date Received: January 28, 2009
Date Started: August 2006
Date Completion:
Last Updated: May 25, 2012
Last Verified: May 2012