Gender-Affirming Mastectomy in Transmasculine Patients: Does Obesity Increase Complications or Revisions?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Obesity can often be a barrier to gender-affirming top surgery in transmasculine patients because of concern for increased surgical site complications.

Study design

All adult patients (N = 948) within an integrated health care system who underwent gender-affirming mastectomy from 2013 to 2018 were retrospectively reviewed to evaluate the relationship between obesity and surgical site complications or revisions.

Results

One third of patients (n = 295) had obese body mass index (BMI), and those patients were further stratified into obesity class I (BMI of 30-34.9 kg/m2, 9.4%), class II (BMI of 35-39.9 kg/m2, 8.9%), and class III (BMI of ≥40 kg/m2, 2.9%). A majority of patients across BMI categories underwent double incision surgery. There were no significant

SUBMITTER: Rothenberg KA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8936918 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature