PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Maryniak, O.
TI  - Severe peripheral neuropathy following gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity
DP  - 1984 Jul 15
TA  - Canadian Medical Association Journal
PG  - 119--120
VI  - 131
IP  - 2
4099  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/131/2/119.short
4100  - http://www.cmaj.ca/content/131/2/119.full
SO  - CMAJ1984 Jul 15; 131
AB  - Severe weakness in the limbs developed in a young woman 3 1/2 months after successful gastric bypass surgery for morbid obesity. Electromyography confirmed the clinical impression of generalized axonal polyneuropathy. Vitamin B replacement therapy was started. The gastric bypass was not reversed, and the patient continued to lose weight while undergoing rehabilitation. After 10 months she had almost fully recovered. Her total weight loss was 76 kg. Neuropathy is an uncommon but serious complication of semistarvation that should be preventable by routine administration of vitamin B complex.