What every hospitalist should know about the post-bariatric surgery patient

Journal of Hospital Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 156-163

  Swanson, Christine M ^a   Roust, Lori R ^a   Miller, Kay ^a   Madura II, James A ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTON PUMP INHIBITOR; SUCRALFATE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ANASTOMOSIS STENOSIS; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BILIOPANCREATIC BYPASS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIET THERAPY; DOUBLE BALLOON ENTEROSCOPY; EROSION; ESOPHAGUS DILATATION; FRACTURE; GALLSTONE FORMATION; GASTRIC BANDING; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; JEJUNUM ULCER; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MEDICAL STAFF; METABOLIC BONE DISEASE; OSTEOMALACIA; OSTEOPOROSIS; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; POSTGASTRECTOMY SYNDROME; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; ROUX Y ANASTOMOSIS; SHORT BOWEL SYNDROME; SLEEVE GASTRECTOMY; SMALL INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; STOMACH BYPASS; SURGICAL PATIENT; VOMITING; WEIGHT FLUCTUATION; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

BARIATRIC SURGERY; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; OBESITY, MORBID; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84856679769     PISSN: 15535592     EISSN: 15535606     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jhm.939     Document Type: Review

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