Nutritional concerns related to Roux-en-Y gastric bypass: What every clinician needs to know

Critical Care Nursing Quarterly

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 227-262

  Shuster, Melanie Horbal ^a,b   Vázquez, Jorge A ^a  

^a ALLEGHENY HEALTH NETWORK   (United States)

^b Allegheny Center for Digestive Health   (United States)

Author keywords

Ghrelin; Morbid obesity; Nutritional deficiencies; Poly neuropathy; Rouxen Y gastric bypass; Wernicke's encephalopathy

Indexed keywords

BODY COMPOSITION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MINERAL DEFICIENCY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROTEIN CALORIE MALNUTRITION; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 23044506678     PISSN: 08879303     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00002727-200507000-00003     Document Type: Review

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