[Iatrogenic arthritis after intestinal by-pass as a treatment for obesity (author's transl)]

The authors report three observations of patients having suffered from arthralgias as an aftermath of intestinal by-pass for treatment of refractory obesity. They remind the main troubles cropping up after such surgical treatment and refer to the data already existing in the literature dealing with articular manifestations. They think this pathology is in keeping with arthritis already reported in inflammatory colitis and they suggest a similar pathogeny.