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Nutritional deficiency secondary to bowel bypass surgery: ocular manifestations and electro-physiological tests

European Journal of Clinical Nutrition volume 66, pages 536–537 (2012)Cite this article

There are generally few data on vitamin A deficiency after gastric bypass surgery,1 and a wide variation in the incidence of vitamin A deficiency could be noted in the literature.

Vitamin A is essential for the normally functioning retinal photosensitive pigment layer and for the superficial epithelial tissues in the eye and skin.

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Jabbar, A. Nutritional deficiency secondary to bowel bypass surgery: ocular manifestations and electro-physiological tests. Eur J Clin Nutr 66, 536–537 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/ejcn.2011.200

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