The Effectiveness of Oral Treatment With Liposomated Iron in Patients With Previous Bariatric Surgery Which Are Currently Receiving Chronic Parentheral Therapy With Iron

Bariatric surgery is the most effective long-term treatment of morbid obesity treatment, so you can maintain weight loss enduringly with improvement or resolution of comorbidity and mortality reduction. All bariatric surgery techniques in postoperative induce a significant reduction in food intake and / or absorption of nutrients and therefore may be associated with a risk of nutritional deficiency, which increases over the years after surgery. One of the nutrients whose absorption is affected significantly is iron, women of childbearing age segment most vulnerable being. A significant percentage of these women require oral supplementation with high doses of iron and often parenteral treatment is needed for digestive intolerance or therapeutic failure.

Hypothesis: The liposome orally administered iron could represent a therapeutic alternative in women of childbearing age, previously undergone bariatric surgery that currently require parenteral iron therapy.

Objectives: To evaluate the tolerability and efficacy of oral iron liposome female patients previously undergone bariatric surgery that currently require parenteral replacement therapy, as well as the impact on quality of life.

Methods: a single center, open, prospective, interventional, in 40 women of childbearing age, previously undergone bariatric surgery, which currently require intravenous iron therapy chronically. Subjects will be divided into 2 parallel groups: 20 cases and 20 controls matched for age, level of Hb, year after surgery and percentage of weight lost.

Relevance: This study will allow us to identify an alternative treatment with oral iron in the case of patients with severe iron deficiency after bariatric surgery, which currently require parenteral iron therapy due to intolerance to current oral products or therapeutic failure. At the same time it could help reduce healthcare costs and improve the quality of life of these patients, who will not have to enter periodically in solitary day hospital for administration of parenteral iron.