Acute neurological presentation due to copper deficiency in a hemodialysis patient following gastric bypass surgery.
Acquired copper deficiency has been recently recognized as a cause of myelopathy, and has been reported to occur many years after gastric bypass surgery performed to aid weight reduction in morbidly obese patients. We report a case of a young woman treated by hemodialysis who presented with acute ne...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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2010
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