Anemia following roux-en-y surgery for morbid obesity

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 101, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1024-1031

  Marinella, Mark A ^a,b  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anemia; Bariatric surgery; Copper deficiency; Iron deficiency; Roux en Y

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ASCORBIC ACID; COPPER SULFATE; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FERRIC HYDROXIDE SUCROSE; FERRITIN; FERROUS SULFATE; FLAVINE ADENINE NUCLEOTIDE; FLAVINE MONONUCLEOTIDE; FOLIC ACID; GLUTATHIONE REDUCTASE; HEMOGLOBIN; IRON; IRON DEXTRAN; MULTIVITAMIN; NICOTINIC ACID; NITROUS OXIDE; PENTAGASTRIN; PYRIDOXINE; RIBOFLAVIN; THIAMINE;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ANATOMY; ANEMIA; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ASCORBIC ACID DEFICIENCY; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; BLEEDING; COPPER DEFICIENCY; CYANOCOBALAMIN DEFICIENCY; DIARRHEA; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ULCER; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; DRUG ABSORPTION; DRUG BIOAVAILABILITY; ENTERIC FEEDING; ESOPHAGITIS; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTRITIS; HELICOBACTER INFECTION; HEMOLYSIS; HUMAN; HYPOKALEMIA; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON THERAPY; JEJUNUM ULCER; LUNG COMPLICATION; MALABSORPTION; MALNUTRITION; MORBID OBESITY; MUCOSAL BLEEDING; NICOTINIC ACID DEFICIENCY; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATHOGENESIS; PERNICIOUS ANEMIA; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PYRIDOXINE DEFICIENCY; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RETROPERITONEAL HEMATOMA; REVIEW; RHABDOMYOLYSIS; RIBOFLAVIN DEFICIENCY; RISK ASSESSMENT; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SEPSIS; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; THROMBOTIC THROMBOCYTOPENIC PURPURA; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; VOMITING; WEIGHT REDUCTION; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; STOMACH BYPASS;

ANEMIA; ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; FOLIC ACID DEFICIENCY; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; MALABSORPTION SYNDROMES; VITAMIN B 12 DEFICIENCY;

EID: 54449099834     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e31817cf7b7     Document Type: Review

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