Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy: A Complication of Gastric Bypass Surgery

Hyperammonemia is a metabolic abnormality characterized by elevated levels of ammonia in the blood. This case report illustrates a 72-year-old Caucasian female with a history of prior gastric bypass surgery done 15 years ago, who was admitted multiple times for acute encephalopathy over the course o...

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Autores principales: Reddy, Varun, Patel, Jinal K, Weerasinghe, Dilendra, Frunzi, Johnathan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7500741/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32963905
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9864
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author Reddy, Varun
Patel, Jinal K
Weerasinghe, Dilendra
Frunzi, Johnathan
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description Hyperammonemia is a metabolic abnormality characterized by elevated levels of ammonia in the blood. This case report illustrates a 72-year-old Caucasian female with a history of prior gastric bypass surgery done 15 years ago, who was admitted multiple times for acute encephalopathy over the course of a few months. The patient was found to have a gastro-gastric fistula seen on a CT scan of the abdomen, which was the culprit of her acute encephalopathy. The patient underwent fistula closure via esophagogastroduodenoscopy.
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spelling pubmed-75007412020-09-21 Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy: A Complication of Gastric Bypass Surgery Reddy, Varun Patel, Jinal K Weerasinghe, Dilendra Frunzi, Johnathan Cureus Internal Medicine Hyperammonemia is a metabolic abnormality characterized by elevated levels of ammonia in the blood. This case report illustrates a 72-year-old Caucasian female with a history of prior gastric bypass surgery done 15 years ago, who was admitted multiple times for acute encephalopathy over the course of a few months. The patient was found to have a gastro-gastric fistula seen on a CT scan of the abdomen, which was the culprit of her acute encephalopathy. The patient underwent fistula closure via esophagogastroduodenoscopy. Cureus 2020-08-19 /pmc/articles/PMC7500741/ /pubmed/32963905 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.9864 Text en Copyright © 2020, Reddy et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Reddy, Varun
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Frunzi, Johnathan
Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy: A Complication of Gastric Bypass Surgery
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title_short Hyperammonemic Encephalopathy: A Complication of Gastric Bypass Surgery
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