Calcium Regulation and Bone Mass Loss After Total Gastrectomy in Pigs

Regulation of vitamin D and calcium metabolism after gastrectomy.

Fifteen men, who had undergone Billroth I gastrectomy and 19 men who had undergone Billroth II gastrectomy were studied with respect to vitamin D and other indices of calcium metabolism. The Billroth I group had hypocalcaemia, raised concentration of serum alkaline phosphatase, and reduced bone mineral content. The same biochemical disturbances were found in the Billroth II group, but bone mine...

Intrathoracic Hernia after Total Gastrectomy

Intrathoracic hernias after total gastrectomy are rare. We report the case of a 78-year-old man who underwent total gastrectomy with antecolic Roux-Y reconstruction for residual gastric cancer. He had alcoholic liver cirrhosis and received radical laparoscopic proximal gastrectomy for gastric cancer 3 years ago. Early gastric cancer in the remnant stomach was found by routine upper gastrointest...

Blood loss after partial gastrectomy.

Six male and three female patients previously iron deficient after a partial gastrectomy were investigated using a whole body counter to measure their percentage (59)Fe retention. No significant difference in iron loss between postgastrectomy patients and controls was found in the majority of subjects over a study which lasted from 175 to 225 days. The detection of increased free iron loss requ...

Pancreatic function and the absorption of fat, iron, vitamin B12, and calcium after total gastrectomy

In the surgical treatment of gastric cancer total gastrectomy may be required. Such an extensive surgical procedure is only justified if the operative mortality is sufficiently low and the patient's general condition after the operation tolerable. The first patient who survived total gastrectomy was operated upon by Schlatter in 1897. A few months later Hofmann (1898) demonstrated that the pati...

[esophago-jejunal Anastomosis after Total Gastrectomy].