ARTHRITIS AFTER JEJUNOILEOSTOMY FOR INTRACTABLE OBESITY

  • 1 January 1977
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 4  (2) , 135-138
Abstract
Joint symptoms developed in 6 of 33 patients (18%) who had jejunoileostomy as treatment for intractable obesity. These consisted of single or recurrent attacks of polyarthritis or arthralgias, primarily in large joints. The histocompatibility antigen, HL-A B27, was not present in these patients. Most attacks responded to simple analgesic agents, but a trial of tetracycline in one patient failed to relieve joint symptoms. This arthropathy seems to differ from that which was reported after jejunocolostomy.

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