Sistema Gastrointestinal e Digestivo

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Intermittent Confusion in a Cirrhotic Patient Not what it Seems

Sanath Allampati, Kevin D. Mullen

Patients who underwent jejunoileal bypass procedures to promote major weight loss can experience a wide array of undesirable complications. One of the most notorious was the development of cirrhosis with varying degrees of loss of overall liver function. Once this complication was widely recognized, the surgical procedure was largely abandoned in favor of other bariatric procedures which are not associated with the complication.