Abdullah M Alharran, Yaqoub Y Alenezi, Sabri M Hammoud, Bandar Alshammari, Mohammed Alrashidi, Fajer B Alyaqout, Abdulhadi Almarri, Yousef M Alharran, Mohammed H Alazemi, Fahad Allafi, Khaled Ahmad Al Sadder
Our goal is to conduct a thorough systematic review and meta-analysis of comparative studies to evaluate the efficacy of LigaSure (Valleylab, Boulder, CO) compared with Harmonic (Ethicon Endo-Surgery, Inc., Cincinnati, OH) devices in patients undergoing laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy (LSG). Our search strategy, from inception until March 1, 2024, involved multiple databases, including the Cochrane Controlled Register of Trials (CENTRAL), Web of Science (WOS), PubMed, Scopus, and Google Scholar. We evaluated randomized clinical trials using the Cochrane Risk of Bias tool for randomized trials (RoB-2) tool and non-randomized studies using the Risk of Bias In Non-randomized Studies for Interventions (ROBINS-I) tool...
April 2024: Curēus