RT Journal
A1 Stoker GE, Buchowski JM, Stoker ME
T1 PRior cholecystectomy as a predictor of preoperative vitamin d deficiency in adults undergoing spine surgery
JF Archives of Surgery
JO Archives of Surgery
YR 2012
FD June 1
VO 147
IS 6
SP 577
OP 578
DO 10.1001/archsurg.2012.463
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archsurg.2012.463
AB 
Well over 500 000 cholecystectomies are performed annually in the United States. Between 5% and 40% of patients who have undergone a cholecystectomy experience some form of postcholecystectomy syndrome thereafter.1 Postcholecystectomy syndrome entails varying degrees of bile salt–derived diarrhea, which typically resolves within several weeks but may persist for years. Despite the influence of bile salts on the intestinal absorption of fat and fat-soluble micronutrients, there exists a decided paucity of literature concerning the potentially deleterious effect of a cholecystectomy on vitamin D status.2- 3