Hematologic Complications of Partial Gastrectomy

Hematologic complications of HIV infection.

Hematologic complications of HIV disease are commonly encountered by physicians and other health-care workers caring for patients infected with this virus. Ineffective hematopoiesis, infiltrative diseases of the bone marrow, nutritional deficiencies, peripheral destruction of blood cells secondary to splenomegaly or immune dysregulation, and drug effects all contribute to the variety of hematol...

Hypoxaemia after Partial Gastrectomy.

After partial gastrectomy there is hypoxaemia which persists for many days. This occurs in patients without complications as well as in those who develop pulmonary collapse; and although pulmonary mechanical function is much impaired as a result of the operation in both, in neither is post-operative hypoxaemia due to inadequate alveolar ventilation since the arterial (alveolar) CO2 tension is n...

The post-operative management, including the management of some of the common complications, of partial gastrectomy.

Gastric mucosa after partial gastrectomy.

A partial gastrectomy of Billroth I or II type was performed in a series of 146 patients with peptic ulcer. Gastric biopsy was carried out two years later and the histology of the specimens compared with that of the body mucosa at the time of operation. In 138 patients without body atrophic gastritis (AG) before operation this condition was found in 74 (54%) two years after (46% of DU patient...

Neurological disease after partial gastrectomy.

Clinical and laboratory signs of neurological disease were found in 14 patients many years after partial gastrectomy. Vitamin B(12) deficiency occurred in most patients, but only those three who had signs of subacute combined degeneration of the cord and no osteomalacia responded well to treatment.