Nutrition and survival in patients with liver cirrhosis

Alberino, F.; Gatta, Angelo; Amodio, Piero; Merkel, Carlo; Pascoli, Lorenza Di; Boffo, G.; Caregaro, L.

doi:10.1016/s0899-9007(01)00521-4

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“…Protein caloric malnutrition (PCM) is highly prevalent in patients with terminal liver disease 1 . Roongpisunthinpong et al 2 suggest that PCM prevalence in chronic hepatic disease is between 10% and 100%, it is dependent on its severity regardless of disease cause.…”

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Evaluation of nutritional indicators and body composition in patients with advanced liver disease enrolled for liver transplantation

2013

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PURPOSE: Malnutrition is prevalent in patients with advanced liver disease (LD) related to multifactorial causes. Fluid retention can underestimate the nutritional status based on anthropometric measures. We evaluated nutritional indicators and body composition (BC) in patients with liver cirrhosis and correlated them with LD severity. METHODS:Forty three patients with LD enrolled for liver transplantation were evaluated by Anthropometric measures, subjective evaluation (Global Assessment of Nutritional Status -SGA) and biochemical indicators. Single-frequency electrical bioimpedance (SFE-BIA) was used to evaluate body composition (BC). It measured resistance (R), reactance (Xc) and the phase angle (PA). LD severity was estimated by Child-Pugh and Meld criteria (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease). RESULTS:Child-Pugh index between patients was 7.11±1.70 and Meld was 12.23±4.22. Arm Circumference, Arm Muscle Circumference and Arm Muscle Area, SGA, hemoglobin, hematocrit and albumin showed better correlation with disease severity. Xc and PA showed correlation both with Meld and Child-Pugh score when BC were evaluated. PA was depleted in 55.8% of the patients. CONCLUSIONS:Diagnosis of malnutrition varied according to the method. Global assessment of nutritional status showed better correlation with disease severity than with objective methods. Single-frequency electrical bioimpedance for body composition analysis in cirrhotic patients must be cautiously used; however, primary vectors seems to be valid and promising in clinical practice.

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Evaluation of nutritional indicators and body composition in patients with advanced liver disease enrolled for liver transplantation

2013

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“…Alcohol excess is an important cause of liver cirrhosis and accounts for a significant proportion of hospital admissions with this disease [1][2][3]. Liver cirrhosis is associated with abnormalities in liver protein synthesis [4][5][6][7], a feature shared with other disease states such as cancer [8][9][10].…”

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Reprioritisation of Liver Export Protein Synthesis in Patients with Decompensated Alcoholic Liver Disease

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McMillan²,

Preston³

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J Hepatol Gastroint Dis

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“…1,2 Malnutrition occurs in all forms of cirrhosis 3 as shown by studies of nutritional status in cirrhosis of differing etiology and of varying degrees of liver insufficiency. 4,5 The prevalence of malnutrition in cirrhosis ranges from 65 to 100% depending upon the methods used for nutritional assessment and the severity of liver disease.…”

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Reprint of: Nutrition in the Management of Cirrhosis and its Neurological Complications

Bémeur

Butterworth

2015

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology

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Nutrition and survival in patients with liver cirrhosis

Cited by 460 publications

References 21 publications

Evaluation of nutritional indicators and body composition in patients with advanced liver disease enrolled for liver transplantation

Evaluation of nutritional indicators and body composition in patients with advanced liver disease enrolled for liver transplantation

Reprioritisation of Liver Export Protein Synthesis in Patients with Decompensated Alcoholic Liver Disease

Reprint of: Nutrition in the Management of Cirrhosis and its Neurological Complications

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