Nutritional status in cirrhosis; pathogenesis and management | ||||
| Medical Journal of Viral Hepatitis | ||||
| Article 2, Volume 3.2, Issue 2, April 2019, Page 41-47 PDF (175.67 K) | ||||
| Document Type: Review articles | ||||
| DOI: 10.21608/mjvh.2019.55726 | ||||
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| Authors | ||||
| Mousa Nasser1; Mokhtar Abdelrahman2; Abbas Neven2; awad Mahmoud2; Ibrahim Adel3 | ||||
| 1Tropical Medicine dept, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura Univ., Egypt. | ||||
| 2Internal Medicine dept, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura Univ., Egypt. | ||||
| 3Occupational Medicine-Public Health dept, Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura Univ., Egypt. | ||||
| Abstract | ||||
| Malnutrition is common in patients with cirrhosis. It is associatedwith worse prognosis and frequent complications including infections, hepatic encephalopathy and ascites. Moreovermalnutrition is associated with the progression of liver failure and high mortality rate. It has many underlying mechanisms including, anorexia, vomiting, poor absorption, and increased losses and other gastrointestinal disorders. The objectives of nutritional intervention in cirrhotic patients are the support of liver regeneration, prevention or correction of specific nutritional deficiencies and the prevention and/or treatment of the complications of liver disease. So that, early recognition and treatment of malnutrition in chronic liver disease lead to better disease outcome as well as prevention of the complications of chronic liver disease. The following review discusses approaches for the clinician to overcome some of the difficulties that prevent adequate nutrition delivery in cirrhotic patients. | ||||
| Keywords | ||||
| Nutritional Status; liver disease; Liver transplantation; Complications; hepatic encephalopathy | ||||
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