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Cardiac cachexia
Chronic heart failure (CHF) remains an important and increasing public health care problem. It is a complex syndrome affecting many body systems. Body wasting (i.e., cardiac cachexia) has long been recognised as a serious complication of CHF. Cardiac…
ESPEN Guidelines on Enteral Nutrition: Cardiology and pulmonology
These guidelines are intended to give evidence-based recommendations for the use of enteral nutrition (EN) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). They were developed by an interdisciplinary…
Tags: 2006, Anker SD, Backlog, Becker HF, Bohm M, Brunkhorst FM, Cardiology/standards, Chronic Obstructive/therapy, Cicoira M, Clinical Nutrition (edinburgh, Scotland), Congestive/therapy, Dardai E, DGEM(German Society for Nutritional Medicine), Enteral Nutrition, Enteral Nutrition/standards, Europe, European Society for Parenteral (ESPEN), Heart Failure, Humans, John M, Journal Article, Laviano A, Pedersen PU, Physician's Practice Patterns, Ponikowski P, Pulmonary Disease, Pulmonary Disease (Specialty)/standards, Raguso C, Schols AM, Vogelmeier C
Prognosis and therapy approaches of cardiac cachexia
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: This review focuses on the prognostic implications and therapeutic approaches in cardiac cachexia - a syndrome that has been recognized for a long time, although it has only received increased attention lately. RECENT FINDINGS:…
The syndrome of cardiac cachexia
Cachexia, i.e. body wasting, has long been recognised as a serious complication of chronic illness. The occurrence of wasting in chronic heart failure (CHF) has been known for many centuries, but it has not been investigated extensively until…