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Esben P K Hansen1, Carsten Metzsche, Emil Henningsen
1Department Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care, Odense University Hospital, 5000 Odense C, Denmark.
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After bariatric gastric bypass surgery patients are at risk of developing micronutrient deficiencies. If gastric bypass surgery is followed by a vitamin deficient diet the patients have a risk of developing vitamin-C deficiency. When spontaneous ecchymosis is observed in the skin, in at-risk patients, scurvy must be considered. When treated with large doses of vitamin-C the symptoms of scurvy rapidly improve even if the patient has developed multiple organ dysfunction syndrome.
Keywords:
Scurvy; Gastric bypass surgery; Multiorgan dysfunction.
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