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Nutrient Deficiencies and Supplementation Post Gastric Bypass Surgery
Nutrient Deficiencies:
 • Most frequent in the malabsorptive surgeries
Supplementation Post Gastric Bypass ... • Persistent nausea ... years • Pervasive neurologic ... gastroenterology #nutrition ... #Vitamin
Refeeding Syndrome Overview

What Is It?
	• Electrolyte/fluid shifts caused by initiation of nutrition in severely malnourished patient.
initiation of nutrition ... severe clinical ... Hypo-Mg2+ • Vitamin ... • Pellagra • Vitamin ... Differential #Diagnosis #Pathophysiology
Bell's Palsy
Bell’s Palsy is a damage, acute weakness, or paralysis of the Facial nerve (7th CN),
an identifiable cause ... but its clinically ...     - Epstein-Barr ... #Bells #Palsy #neurology ... #anatomy #pathophysiology
Scurvy (Vitamin C Deficiency) - Diagnosis and Management

Vitamin C is required for hydroxylation of proline residues
persons with poor nutrition ... Clinical Presentation ... , or any other cause ... #Pathophysiology ... #Nutrition #Diagnosis
Guillain-Barre Syndrome - Summary

Acute AIDP that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness

Epidemiology:
 • 1-2 cases/100,000 per
Epidemiology: • 1-2 cases ... Pathophysiology ... meningococcal, H1N1) Clinical ... Clinical Features ... management #treatment #neurology
Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS)
Acute autoimmune demyelinating polyradiculoneuropathy that presents with rapidly progressive flaccid weakness
Epidemiology:
 • Incidence: 1
Incidence: 1 to 2 cases ... transplantation CLINICAL ... the underlying pathophysiology ... specific therapy, the clinician ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Thiamine Deficiency - Differential Diagnosis Framework and Clinical Manifestations

Causes of Thiamine Deficiency:
 • Poor intake:
	- Diets
Framework and Clinical ... Manifestations Causes ... TPN - Gastric bypass ... syndromes #beriberi #nutrition ... #pathophysiology
Transverse Myelitis Overview

Focal inflammatory disorder of the spinal cord resulting in rapid onset of weakness, sensory
monophasic Pathophysiology ... Transverse Myelitis - Clinical ... MS) • Check Vitamin ... antibodies • Nutritional ... diagnosis #management #neurology
Low Alkaline Phosphatase - Hypophosphatasia 

Is Low Alkaline Phosphatase Of Clinical Importance?

ALP enzyme- Discovered in 1923
Low
Phosphatase Of Clinical ... deficiency • Vitamin ... collection with EDTA Pathophysiology ... respiratory failure • Neurologic ... Phosphatase: • Other causes