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Micronutrient Deficiencies After Gastric Bypass
Fat-Soluble Vitamins:
 • Vitamin A - Night/complete blindness, xeropthalmia (pathologic dryness of
After Gastric Bypass ... • Thiamine - Nausea ... - Macrocytic anemia ... Deficiencies #Gastric #Bypass ... #table #differential
Clinically Important Vitamins and Vitamin Deficiency States
Fat-soluble Vitamins: 
 • Vitamin A - Xerophthalmia, night blindness,
: • Vitamin A ... E - Haemolytic anaemia ... paraesthesiae • Folate - Anaemia ... B12 - Anaemia, ... #Deficiency #differential
Causes of Vitamin B12 Deficiency - Cobalamin
Decreased Intake
Pancreas: Insufficiency
Intestine: SIBO, Celiac disease, IBD, Lymphoma, Amyloidosis, Resection,
Causes of Vitamin ... Stomach: Pernicious anemia ... , Bypass/gastrectomy ... BrighamChiefs #Vitamin ... Deficiency #Cobalamin #differential
Causes of Hypercalcemia due to increased Vitamin D levels
 • The BIG 3:
Causes of Hypercalcemia ... due to increased Vitamin ... Miscellaneous: Excessive vitamin ... Hypercalcemia #VitaminD ... #causes #differential
Causes of Hypercalcemia - Differential Diagnosis Algorithm
 • Primary Hyperparathyroidism 
 • Possible Familial Hypocalciuric Hypercalcemia
Causes of Hypercalcemia ... - Differential ... tuberculosis) • Vitamin ... Osteolytic Metastasis, Vitamin ... Hypercalcemia #Differential
Hypercalcemia - EKG Findings
Causes of Hypercalcemia 
• Malignancy 
• Milk-alkali syndrome 
• Vitamin D toxicity 
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EKG Findings Causes ... Milk-alkali syndrome • Vitamin ... Electrocardiogram #Differential ... #Causes #Diagnosis ... #Cardiology
Algorithm for the evaluation of macrocytic anemia. (RBC = red blood cell; MMA = methylmalonic acid.)
Physicians
reticulocyte count, and a vitamin ... the most likely cause ... recovery also causes ... Measures of vitamin ... work-up, because if vitamin
Acute Joint Pain - Vitamin CD Mnemonic
Vascular
Infectious
Trauma - Multiple injury sites, Open Fracture, Infectious joint pain
Autoimmune
Acute Joint Pain - Vitamin ... Acute #JointPain #VitaminCD ... #Orthopedics #differential ... #diagnosis #Causes
Anemia - Underproduction Diagnostic Algorithm
 - Iron deficiency anemia
 - Anemia of chronic inflammation
 - Anemia
Anemia - Underproduction ... Iron deficiency anemia ... - Anemia of chronic ... kidney disease - Vitamin ... hematology #diagnosis #differential
Causes of False Elevation and Reduction in HbA1c

== False Elevation ==
Decreased RBC turnover 
• Iron, B-12,
Causes of False ... Hypertriglyceridemia • Uremia ... • Hemolytic anemia ... glycosylation • Vitamin ... Diagnosis #DM2 #Differential