Vitamin D deficiency following Billroth II surgery - How much vitamin D is enough?: a case report

BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency with all its consequences is a global health problem. CASE PRESENTATION: We reported a 62-year-old Caucasian woman with alcohol-related liver cirrhosis (Child class A) and a medical history of Billroth II surgery. Although she has taken an oral dose of 16 800 IU vita...

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Autores principales: Sampl, Eva, Wagner, Doris, Friedl, Claudia, Dobnig, Harald, Fahrleitner-Pammer, Astrid
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2010
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2828992/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20180946
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-3-12
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Sumario:BACKGROUND: Vitamin D deficiency with all its consequences is a global health problem. CASE PRESENTATION: We reported a 62-year-old Caucasian woman with alcohol-related liver cirrhosis (Child class A) and a medical history of Billroth II surgery. Although she has taken an oral dose of 16 800 IU vitamin D daily for six weeks to normalise her 25-hydroxyvitamin D level the raise was only moderate. CONCLUSION: High-dose oral or parenteral vitamin D therapy is necessary to gain sufficient 25-hydroxyvitamin D serum levels in patients following gastric surgery.

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