[Anorexia: a redoubtable complication of the surgical treatment for obesity after jejuno ileal by-pass (author's transl)].

Nouv Presse Med, 1978/5/06;7(18):1527-30.

Schlienger JL, Calderoli H, Hollender LF, Stephan F

PMID: 97623

Abstract
Three cases of severe anorexia are reported. It results in a strong protein malabsorption with hepatic steatosis and in a syndrome of mental depression which needed the re-establishment of the intestinal-continuity. Although a mild post-operative anorexia is regular and contributes to the weight loss, massive anorexia must be considered as a new and redoubtable unpredictible complication of the surgical treatment for obesity, which may hinder the intestinal adaptation and increase the protein malabsorption.
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