Do you routinely check vitamin K levels in post-bariatric surgery patients?
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Endocrinology · Tufts Medical Center Physicians Organization
Vitamin K levels are not checked routinely in post-bariatric surgery patients. Deficiency of this vitamin is very uncommon in patients who have undergone a sleeve gastrectomy and even with Roux-en-Y gastric bypass. There is more potential for deficiency in patients who have had biliopancreatic diver...