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From the Department of Neurology (Dr. Thaisetthawatkul, J.E. Norell, Dr. Dyck), Peripheral Neuropathy Research Center, Department of Medicine (Dr. Collazo-Clavell), Section of Endocrinology and Department of Surgery (Dr. Sarr), Mayo Clinic and Mayo Foundation, Rochester, MN. Dr. Thaisetthawatkul is currently at the Department of Neurological Sciences, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to Dr. P.J.B. Dyck, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, 200 First St. SW, Rochester, MN 55905; e-mail: dyck.pjames{at}mayo.edu
Background: Although peripheral neuropathy (PN) occurs after bariatric surgery (BS), a causal association has not been established.
Objectives: To ascertain whether PN occurs more frequently following BS vs another abdominal surgery, to characterize the clinical patterns of PN, to identify risk factors for PN, and to assess if nerve biopsy provides pathophysiologic insight.
Methods: Retrospective review identified patients with PN after BS. The frequency of PN was compared with that of an age- and gender-matched, retrospectively evaluated cohort of obese patients undergoing cholecystectomy.
Results: Of 435 patients who had BS, 71 (16%) developed PN. Patients developed PN more often after BS than after cholecystectomy (4/126; 3%) (p < 0.001). The clinical patterns of PN were polyneuropathy (n = 27), mononeuropathy (n = 39), and radiculoplexus neuropathy (n = 5). Risk factors included rate and absolute amount of weight loss, prolonged gastrointestinal symptoms, not attending a nutritional clinic after BS, reduced serum albumin and transferrin after BS, postoperative surgical complications requiring hospitalization, and having jejunoileal bypass. Most risk factors were associated with the polyneuropathy group. Sural nerve biopsies showed prominent axonal degeneration and perivascular inflammation.
Conclusions: Peripheral neuropathy (PN) occurs more frequently after bariatric surgery (BS) than after another abdominal surgery. The three clinical patterns of PN after BS are sensory-predominant polyneuropathy, mononeuropathy, and radiculoplexus neuropathy. Malnutrition may be the most important risk factor, and patients should attend nutritional clinics. Inflammation and altered immunity may play a role in the pathogenesis, but further study is needed.
Received January 26, 2004. Accepted in final form May 20, 2004.
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