Refeeding Syndrome: An Important Complication Following Obesity Surgery
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Refeeding Syndrome: An Important Complication Following Obesity Surgery
BACKGROUND Refeeding syndrome (RFS) is an important and well-known complication in malnourished patients, but the incidence of RFS after obesity surgery is unknown and the awareness of RFS in obese patients as a postsurgical complication must be raised. We present a case of RFS subsequent to biliopancreatic diversion in a morbidly obese patient. CASE REPORT A 48-year-old female patient with a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Obesity Facts
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1662-4025,1662-4033
DOI: 10.1159/000442534