Serum zinc deficiency in patients after gastrectomy for gastric cancer.

Tsutomu NamikawaShigeto ShimizuKeiichiro YokotaNobuhisa TaniokaJun IwabuMasaya MunekageSunao UemuraHiromichi MaedaHiroyuki KitagawaMichiya KobayashiKazuhiro Hanazaki

Published in: International journal of clinical oncology (2021)

Serum zinc deficiency was found in 68.6% of postoperative patients who underwent gastrectomy for gastric cancer, which was highly correlated with serum albumin.

Keyphrases

end stage renal disease
ejection fraction
newly diagnosed
chronic kidney disease
peritoneal dialysis
patient reported outcomes
replacement therapy