Nutritional Demand after Gastric Surgery

Abdulaziz Al-Nasser, Nasser Alzerwi, Marwah Sami M Hussain, Khuloud Omar Bukhari, Helayel Almodhaiberi and Bandar Idrees Ali

Department of Biological & Medical Research, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia
Department of Surgery, Al-Majmah University, Saudi Arabia
Department of Surgery, Prince Sultan Military Medical City, Saudi Arabia
Ministry of Health, Saudi Arabia

^*Correspondance to: Bandar Idrees Ali 

 PDF  Full Text DOI: 10.25107/2474-1647.2465

Abstract

Incidence of gastrectomies has been increased rapidly worldwide in the last four decades. There is a wide variety of gastric benign or malignant pathology which necessitate a partial or complete removal of the stomach. This includes peptic ulcer diseases, gastric submucosal tumors, obesity and its related diseases and gastric malignancy. Therefore, the importance of stomach surgery from a nutritional point of view should be reviewed. It is not uncommonly neglected by clinicians despite being important and frequent long-term metabolic complications. The incidence and timing of the occurrence of malnutrition following gastrectomy are closely associated with the extent of gastrectomy and the reconstruction method used patient’s general initial condition and the underlying pathology.

Keywords

Gastrectomy; Gastric disease; Cancer; Malnutrition vitamin B12; Intrinsic factor

Cite the article

Al-Nasser A, Alzerwi N, Hussain MSM, Bukhari KO, Almodhaiberi H, Ali BI. Nutritional Demand after Gastric Surgery. Clin Surg. 2019; 4: 2465.