SMJ articles in the category "hypophosphatemia"

Original Article

CME Article: Incidence of Refeeding Syndrome in Pediatric Inpatients at the US–Mexico Border

Objectives: Refeeding syndrome is a life-threatening, physiological process that occurs when patients with severe malnutrition are too rapidly rehabilitated, leading to the development of electrolyte abnormalities. Hypophosphatemia, a hallmark of the disease, has most commonly been studied, because it is recognized to result in cardiac arrhythmias, seizures, cardiac failure, respiratory…

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Case Report

Refractory Diffuse Bony Pain 20 Years After Jejunoileal Bypass

Osteomalacia can be a late but unrecognized complication following jejunoileal bypass. We describe a 53-year-old man who underwent jejunoileal bypass for morbid obesity twenty years earlier who suffered from progressive diffuse bony pain refractory to nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. He was initially diagnosed with a malignancy with bone metastasis. However, pertinent…

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