Acute neurological presentation due to copper deficiency in a hemodialysis patient following gastric bypass surgery

Clinical Nephrology

Volumn 74, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 389-392

  Rounis, E ^a   Laing, C M ^a   Davenport, A ^a  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ataxia; Copper deficiency; Gastric bypass surgery; Hemodialysis; Myopathy; Nystagmus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA TOCOPHEROL; ASCORBIC ACID; COPPER; CYANOCOBALAMIN; FOLIC ACID; PANTOTHENIC ACID; PHOSPHATE; PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; PYRIDOXINE; RETINOL; RIBOFLAVIN; VITAMIN K GROUP;

ADULT; AREFLEXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL KIDNEY; ATAXIA; ATHETOSIS; BLURRED VISION; BODY MASS; CASE REPORT; CEREBELLAR ATAXIA; CEREBELLUM DISEASE; CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COORDINATION DISORDER; COPPER DEFICIENCY; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DIPLOPIA; DRUG MEGADOSE; DYSESTHESIA; DYSPEPSIA; ENDOSCOPY; FEMALE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY BIOPSY; KIDNEY INJURY; LIMB WEAKNESS; MONITORING; MORBID OBESITY; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; MYOCLONUS; MYOPATHY; NOCICEPTION; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NYSTAGMUS; PARESTHESIA; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PHOSPHATE BLOOD LEVEL; PHYSIOTHERAPY; PROTEINURIA; RETCHING; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SPINAL CORD DISEASE; STOMACH BYPASS; STOMACH SURGERY; STOMACH ULCER;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; CERULOPLASMIN; COPPER; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; GASTRIC BYPASS; HUMANS; MUSCLE WEAKNESS; NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASES; NYSTAGMUS, PATHOLOGIC; OBESITY, MORBID; RENAL DIALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78649843424     PISSN: 03010430     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2379/CNX06503     Document Type: Article

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