Are gastrointestinal symptoms more intense in morbidly obese patients?
Morbidly obese patients experience more intense GI symptoms than normal subjects, whereas dysphagia is equivalent to normal subjects. These data may be important in counseling patients and understanding that their complaints are legitimate. Follow-up in the postoperative period is needed to determine if these symptoms are improved with an operation.
It was concluded that dantrolene applied after ischemia might help protect the spinal cord against ischemia/reperfusion injury.