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Perioperative nutritional therapy in liver transplantation

Hepatology
Author
Ahmed Hammand et al.
Used Parameters : ECW, ICW, PBF

Publication Year : 2014

Country : Japan

Journal : Surgery Today

Protein-energy malnutrition is frequently seen in patients with end-stage liver disease who undergo liver transplantation. This causes a deterioration of the patients' clinical condition and affects their post-transplantation survival. Accurate assessment of the nutritional status and adequate intervention are prerequisites for perioperative nutritional treatment. However, the metabolic abnormalities induced by liver failure make the traditional assessment of the nutritional status difficult. The methods that were recently developed for accurately …
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