Bariatric surgery is an effective therapy for patients with medical treatment-resistant morbid obesity. Improves anthropometric parameters, cardiovascular risks and life quality. However, bariatric surgery procedures increases the risk of nutritional deficit, and can cause postoperative neurological complications as encephalopathy, ataxia or polyneuropathies; or aggravate an existing neuropathy.
Bariatric surgery in a patient with spinocerebellar ataxia. A case report
 
  Keywords
 
 
  
   Ataxia
  
 
 
  
   Obesity
  
 
 
  
   Bariatric
  
 
Bariatric surgery is an effective therapy for patients with medical treatment-resistant morbid obesity. 
Improves anthropometric parameters, cardiovascular risks and life quality. 
However, bariatric surgery procedures increases the risk of nutritional deficit, and can cause postoperative neurological complications as encephalopathy, <dis>ataxia</dis> or polyneuropathies; or aggravate an existing neuropathy. 
Usually, these complications are more frequent in malabsorptive procedures than in restrictive ones.
We present a clinical case of a patient with <dis>spinocerebellar ataxia</dis> who undergoes bariatric surgery. 
Successfully, bariatric surgery has been achieved in a patient with <dis>ataxia</dis> and hypoalbuminemia, without nutritional or neurological worsening in the medium term.
Bariatric surgery is an effective therapy for patients with medical treatment-resistant morbid obesity. 
Improves anthropometric parameters, cardiovascular risks and life quality. 
However, bariatric surgery procedures increases the risk of nutritional deficit, and can cause postoperative neurological complications as encephalopathy, ataxia or polyneuropathies; or aggravate an existing neuropathy. 
Usually, these complications are more frequent in malabsorptive procedures than in restrictive ones.
We present a clinical case of a patient with spinocerebellar ataxia who undergoes bariatric surgery. 
Successfully, bariatric surgery has been achieved in a patient with ataxia and hypoalbuminemia, without nutritional or neurological worsening in the medium term.
Bariatric surgery is an effective therapy for patients with medical treatment-resistant morbid obesity. Improves anthropometric parameters, cardiovascular risks and life quality. However, bariatric surgery procedures increases the risk of nutritional deficit, and can cause postoperative neurological complications as encephalopathy, <dis>ataxia</dis> or polyneuropathies; or aggravate an existing neuropathy.
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