Reversible neurologic dysfunction caused by severe vitamin deficiency after malabsorptive bariatric surgery

Surgery for Obesity and Related Diseases

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 656-660

  Rothkopf, Michael M ^a  

^a South Mountain Medical Consultants   (United States)

Author keywords

Bariatric surgery; Malabsorption; Metabolic monitoring; Neurologic dysfunction; Vitamin deficiency

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; CYANOCOBALAMIN; MAGNESIUM; POTASSIUM; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; RETINOL PALMITATE; VITAMIN D;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATAXIA; BARIATRIC SURGERY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONFUSION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DYSARTHRIA; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; JEJUNOILEOSTOMY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; VERTIGO; VITAMIN DEFICIENCY;

AVITAMINOSIS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; JEJUNOILEAL BYPASS; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY, MORBID; VITAMIN A DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN D DEFICIENCY;

EID: 33751335656     PISSN: 15507289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.soard.2006.08.015     Document Type: Article

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