Stroke and seizure following a recent laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastri bypass

Obesity Surgery

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 857-860

  Choi, John Y ^a,b   Scarborough, Terry K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b MSB 7124 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Complication; Gastric bypass; Laparoscopy; Morbid obesity; Stroke

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; FOSPHENYTOIN SODIUM; LEVIACETAM; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; COMORBIDITY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEHYDRATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FATTY LIVER; FEMALE; GRAND MAL SEIZURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALNUTRITION; MORBID OBESITY; NEUROLOGICAL COMPLICATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORAL CONTRACEPTION; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SMOKING; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TRANSTHORACIC ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY;

ADOLESCENT; ANASTOMOSIS, ROUX-EN-Y; BRAIN INFARCTION; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; COMORBIDITY; DEHYDRATION; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; LAPAROSCOPY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALNUTRITION; OBESITY, MORBID; PROTEIN S DEFICIENCY; SEIZURES;

EID: 3242772893     PISSN: 09608923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1381/0960892041590890     Document Type: Article

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