Postoperative parkinsonism and lupus anticoagulant: a model of autoantibody-mediated neurotoxicity in stress.

Primary Objective: Nigrostriatal hypodopaminergism is the fundamental basis in parkinsonism. It may arise secondarily from a variety of disorders but is rarely mentioned shortly after surgery.

Methods And Procedures: To report the clinical course of five patients who had had symptomatic parkinsonism developed shortly after surgery (lumbar laminectomy, prostatectomy and cholestectomy).