| Title | Weakness after gastric bypass. | | Author(s) | Chang CG, Helling TS, Black WE, Rymer MM | | Institution | Department of Surgery, Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, Fort Polk, LA, USA. | | Source | Obes Surg 2002 Aug; 12(4):592-7. | | MeSH | Adult
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Gastric Bypass
Guillain-Barre Syndrome
Humans
Muscle Weakness
Nutrition Disorders
Obesity, Morbid
Postoperative Complications
Postoperative Nausea and Vomiting
Reflex, Abnormal
Treatment Outcome
| | Abstract | Two patients underwent gastric bypasses and had uneventful hospital courses. In the early postoperative periods, both developed severe, protracted vomiting, weakness, and hyporeflexia. After thorough laboratory and clinical evaluations by neurologists, the patients were diagnosed with Guillain-Barré syndrome, although there were many atypical features. The clinical presentations of these patients are very similar to case reports of nutritional polyneuropathy associated with gastric partitioning. This paper addresses the difficulties of differentiating these two diagnoses. | | Language | eng | | Pub Type(s) | Case Reports
Journal Article
| | PubMed ID | 12194558 |
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