Preoperative Assessment of Patients Undergoing Bariatric Sleeve Gastrectomy: A Cross-Sectional Study

Table 3

Endoscopic findings among symptomatic and asymptomatic participants.

	Asymptomatic (, 71.2%)	Symptomatic (, 28.8%)	value
Esophageal findings
Reflux esophagitis	15 (16.1)	9 (23.7)	0.22^#
Hiatal hernia	16 (17.2)	7 (18.4)	0.86
Incompetent cardia	31 (33.3)	18 (47.4)	0.13
Gastric findings
Pangastritis	6 (6.5)	1 (2.6)	0.67^#
Antral gastritis	28 (30.1)	17 (44.7)	0.11
Nodular gastritis	13 (14.0)	3 (7.9)	0.33^#
Gastric ulceration	5 (5.4)	1 (2.6)	0.67^#
Other gastric findings	15 (16.1)	12 (31.6)	0.05
Duodenal findings
Duodenitis 1^st part	7 (7.5)	4 (10.5)	0.57^#
Duodenitis 2^nd part	2 (2.2)	0 (0.0)	0.36^#
Duodenitis both parts	3 (3.2)	0 (0.0)	0.55^#
Duodenal ulcer	3 (3.2)	2 (5.3)	0.62^#
Biopsy findings
Active chronic gastritis	33 (35.1)	16 (42.1)	0.67
Dysplasia	1 (1.1)	0 (0.0)	0.75
HP infection	25 (26.6)	11 (28.9)	0.54

Other gastric finding includes bile reflux, antral erosion, multiple gastric polyps. ^#Fisher’s exact test.