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Roux Limb Motility in Gastric Bypass Patients with Chronic Abdominal Pain-Is There an Association to Prescribed Opioids?

Per BjörklundAlmantas MaleckasHans LönrothNiclas BjörnfotSven Egron ThörnLars Fändriks
Published in: Obesity surgery (2020)
In the symptomatic patient group, we found disturbed Roux limb motor patterns in 10 out of 15 examinations, but no signs of Roux stasis syndrome. A high prevalence of prescribed opioid analgesics as well as a high number of reoperations in this group. The worst quality of life and the highest number of pain-killing medications were observed among the patients with distal pacemaker activity in Roux limb. In the morphine-naïve and asymptomatic patients, morphine increased the muscular tone in the Roux limb during phase III-like motor activity. A majority of the RYGBP patients with chronic abdominal pain had a disturbed Roux limb fasting motility, and there was a high prevalence of prescribed opioid analgesics. In opiate-naïve RYGBP patients, acute morphine intravenously increased the muscular tone of the Roux limb.
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