Avaliação da síndrome de dumping em pacientes obesos mórbidos submetidos à operação de bypass gástrico com reconstrução em Y de Roux / Analysis of the dumping syndrome on morbid obese patients submitted to Roux en Y gastric bypass

OBJETIVO: Determinar a prevalência da síndrome de dumping em uma série de casos submetidos ao bypass gástrico, baseado em critérios clínicos, e caracterizar seus principais aspectos. MÉTODOS: Foi realizada uma análise dos sintomas descritos como dumping em 34 pacientes obesos mórbidos submetidos ao bypass gástrico com reconstrução em Y de Roux, por meio do preenchimento de um questionário que incluiu um sistema de escore para o diagnóstico clínico da síndrome de dumping, descrito por Sigstad. RESULTADOS: A ocorrência de dumping com base em critérios subjetivos foi de 44 por cento. Aplicando o escore para diagnóstico clínico, a ocorrência foi de 76 por cento. Os sintomas mais freqüentes foram "vontade de deitar" (88 por cento), cansaço (69 por cento) e sono (69 por cento). Apenas 28 por cento dos pacientes com dumping se sentiram incapacitados para a realização das atividades cotidianas. Não foi observada diferença entre o percentual de perda de peso dos pacientes dumpers e não-dumpers. CONCLUSÃO: O escore de Sigstad se mostrou uma ferramenta útil para o diagnóstico de dumping, embora uma visão crítica deva ser adotada quando utilizado em pacientes submetidos ao bypass gástrico. A síndrome de dumping foi frequente nesta população, embora geralmente subestimada, não sendo incapacitante para a realização das atividades cotidianas dos pacientes, assim como não se mostrou um fator relevante no auxílio à perda de peso.

OBJECTIVE: The objective of this research was to determine the real prevalence and characteristics of dumping syndrome in a series of cases submitted to laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass for morbid obesity. METHODS: We assessed dumping symptoms in 34 patients who had undergone that procedure; they filled a questionnaire, which included the dumping clinical diagnosis score proposed by Sigstad. RESULTS: regarding patients' complaints, dumping prevalence was 44 percent. This number increased to 76 percent when applying the Sigstad's score. The most frequent symptoms were "need for lying down" (88 percent), fatigue (69 percent) and sleepiness (69 percent). Only 28 percent of the dumpers felt incapable of performing everyday activities. There was no difference in weight loss percentage between dumpers and non-dumpers. CONCLUSION: The Sigstad score is an usefull tool for the diagnostic of dumping, but a critic vision must be adopted when using in pacients submited to the Roux en Y gastric bypass. The dumping syndrome was frequent in this group, although usually under-diagnosed; it neither hampers patients' everyday activities considerably, nor helps in the weight-loosing process.

Síndrome de vaciamiento rápido en pacientes sometidos a resección gástrica / Dumping syndrome in patients submitted to gastric resection

BACKGROUND: We undertook this study to establish the incidence of dumping syndrome after partial or total gastric resection and its association with patient's preoperative nutritional status as well as the clinical behavior with dietary management during a short-term follow-up period. METHODS: This was a prospective study of consecutive patients >30 years of age and who were submitted to gastrectomy for gastric cancer or complicated ulceropeptic disease during a 48-month period in a highly specialized hospital. RESULTS: A total of 42 patients were evaluated with a slight female predominance (n = 22, 52.4%). Twenty-nine cases (69%) had subtotal gastrectomy and 13 (31%) had a total gastrectomy. Patients had a medium age of 54.38 +/- 7.56 vs. 66 +/- 13.99 years, respectively (p = 0.034). Reconstruction techniques were Roux-en-Y gastrojejunostomy in 70% and Roux-en-Y esophagojejunostomy in 28.5%. We found dumping syndrome in 45% of the cases associated with acute or chronic undernutrition (p = 0.003). Fifty-three percent of the patients with dumping syndrome improved with adequate dietetic manipulation during a follow-up period of 211 days. CONCLUSIONS: Although the majority of reconstructions were performed with dysfunctionalized small bowel segments, the incidence of dumping syndrome was 45%. Patient's preoperative nutritional status influenced the presence of clinical manifestations. Adequate dietary management reduced, in 53% of the patients, the presence of dumping symptoms during a short-term follow-up period.

Dumping syndrome in a young Jamaican child

The dumping syndrome in childhood is an uncommon complication of gastro-oesophageal surgery, principally Nissen fundoplication. A Jamaican child developed the syndrome after fundoplication and pyloroplasty to relieve gastro-oesophageal reflux complicating the repair of a congenital tracheo-oesophageal fistula. He developed marasmus and failed to gain weight on the standard remedial milk-based high-energy diet. An oral glucose tolerance test confirmed the diagnosis of dumping syndrome. A low sugar low milk diet based on adult type meals with continuous nibbling of fried dumplings relieved his diarrhoea and hypoglycaemia and he gained weight. This is a cheaper and more practical dietary therapy than the regimens described previously.