Aim: The aim of this study is to analyze the outcome of cases who underwent abdominoplasty surgery in our facility for the last five years. Patients and Methods: This is a retrospective study analyzing the outcome of patients who underwent abdominoplasty from the beginning of January 2015 till the end of December 2019 in Zayed Military Hospital, Abu Dhabi, United Arab of Emirates. Postoperative complications were recorded. The effects of risk factors including age, sex, smoking, body mass index, associated comorbidity, previous bariatric surgery and combined procedures were evaluated. Results: 213 patients were included in this five-year study. Majority of the patients were females 161 cases (75.6%) while males presented 52 cases (24.4%). The mean age was 38.3 years. The mean BMI was 27 Kg/m 2 . 127 patients had previous bariatric surgery (59.6%) while 86 patients had not (40.4%). There were no major systemic complications in the cases as deep venous thrombosis, pulmonary embolism or paralytic ileus. There was no mortality in the study cases. Out of the 213 cases included in the study, 23 patients developed haematoma (10.8%), 8 patients developed seroma formation (3.8%), 3 patients had wound infection (1.4%) and one patient had tissue necrosis (0.5%). The complication rate was higher in males 36.4% compared to females 9.9% (p < 0. 001). The patients who were 40 years old and above had less complications rate than those who were below 40 years 9.6% and 21% respectively (p < 0.005). The patients with BMI of 28 Kg/m 2 or less had less complications 14.3% compared to those above that level 21.2% although it was not a significant difference (p = 0.231). 55.7% of the smokers had complications while the incidence among non smokers was 8.5% (p < 0.005). Those who underwent previous bariatric surgery had more complications 19.7% compared to those who had not undergone this surgery 11.6% but it was not statistically significant (p = 0.372). Those who had liposuction, plication of the recti muscles or both in combination with the abdominoplasty procedure had 8% complica-

Objective: This study aims at assessing the relation between smoking and the incidence of haematoma formation in abdominoplasty surgery cases. Patients and Methods: This is a 4 years retrospective study involving the patients who underwent abdominoplasty surgery between the

Objective: This study aims at assessing the incidence of haematoma formation in abdominoplasty cases who had previous bariatric surgery and in those who did not have bariatric surgery before. Patients and Methods: This is a 4 years retrospective study involving patients who underwent abdominoplasty surgery between the period of July 2015 and June 2019. The incidence of haematoma formation was assessed in relation to history of previous bariatric surgery in these patients. Results: 164 patients met the inclusion criteria of the study; 46 of them were males and 118 were females. The mean age of the patients included in the study was 38.6 (21 -60 years). The mean BMI was 27 kg/m 2 (21.4 -34.7 Kg/m 2 ). The mean hospital stay was 6.6 days (4 -19 days). 107 patients had history of previous bariatric surgery performed and 57 had not. 21 patients developed haematoma (12.8%). 16 of the patients who had haematoma had previous bariatric surgery done (15% of post bariatric surgery cases) while 5 patients developed haematoma with no history of previous bariatric surgery (8.8%). Sixteen male patients out of the 46 male patients in the study developed postoperative haematoma (34.8% of the male patients) while only 5 of the 118 female patients developed postoperative haematoma (4.2% of the female patients) which shows a significant difference in haematoma formation when comparing males to females in general (p < 0.001). A same significant difference in haematoma formation was found in males who had previous bariatric surgery (13.1%) compared to females who had the same procedure done before (1.9%) (p < 0.001). Out of the 46 male patients included in the study, 16 patients developed haematoma, 14 patients of them had previous bariatric surgery (30.4% of the male patients) while the other 2 patients had no bariatric surgery done before (4.4% of the male patients) indicating that males who had previous bariatric surgery had the highest chance of developing haematoma (p < 0.05).