Osteomalacia after gastrectomy.

Osteomalacia following gastrectomy.

Osteomalacia following gastrectomy.

patients had a syndrome resembling osteomalacia, 4 patients had vertebral crush fractures, while one patient had pseudo-fractures (Looser's zones). Chalmers (1965) recently described to the British Orthopaedic Association 25 cases, including the 2 reported below, which he had collected within the past 3 years. He feels that the condition is much commoner than is generally suspected. CASE REPORT...

Osteomalacia after prolonged glutethimide administration.

Vitamin D deficiency is a previously unreported complication of therapy with hypnotics, and we here report a case of osteomalacia associated with long-term glutethimide administration. There was evidence of pronounced hepatic enzyme induction, and the plasma half-time of (3)H vitamin D(3) was decreased by this drug. In addition, raised levels of serum gamma-glutamyl transpeptidase, 5-nucleotida...

Osteopenia and osteomalacia after gastrectomy: interrelations between biochemical markers of bone remodelling, vitamin D metabolites, and bone histomorphometry.

The prevalence of metabolic disease in a population of 68 postgastrectomy patients was assessed using histomorphometric evaluation of transiliac bone biopsy specimens after tetracycline double labelling. Trabecular bone volume was significantly lower in the postgastrectomy group (p less than 0.01): 62% of the patients had increased osteoid surface, 56% increased osteoid thickness, and 24% incre...

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...