Guest guest Posted September 14, 2001 Report Share Posted September 14, 2001 Chris!!! you are amazing. Thanks ever so much for digging this up. It makes a lot of sense, too. I will bring it along on my visit to the urologist on Monday. --Steve At 11:25 PM +0000 9/13/01, chull1@... wrote: >Steve, > >I found the information I was lookin for. The article is by Dr. >Mervyn Deitel - he is discussing the JIB. > > " The major problem, however, was oxalate renal stones related to fat >malabsorption. Calcium normally complexes with oxalate which thus >goes out in the stool. However, with the short-gut syndrome, the >calcium forms insoluble complexes with fatty acids of the steatorrheo >and thus, oxalate is left to be absorbed, resulting in oxalemia and >oxaluria. " > >So it is the lack of calcium to combine with the oxalate that causes >problems, not excess calcium! > >This problem was frequent with JIB but no more common than pre-op for >BPD/DS. > >Hull -- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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