Alcoholic Liver Disease and Malnutrition

摘要: Malnutrition, both protein energy malnutrition (PEM) and deficiencies in individual nutrients, is a frequent complication of alcoholic liver disease (ALD). Severity correlates with severity ALD. Malnutrition also occurs patients cirrhosis due to etiologies other than alcohol. The mechanisms for are multifactorial, frequently worsens the hospital fasting procedures metabolic complications disease, such as hepatic encephalopathy. Aggressive nutritional support indicated inpatients ALD, often need be fed through an enteral feeding tube achieve calorie goals. Enteral clearly improves nutrition status may improve clinical outcome. Moreover, late-night snacks outpatient cirrhotics lean body mass. Thus, no FDA-approved therapy careful intervention should considered frontline therapy.