THERAPEUTIC CLASS
Nutrition in the Management of Cirrhosis and its Neurological Complications
Malnutrition is acommonfeature of chronic liver diseases that is often associated with a poor prognosis including worsening of clinical outcome, neuropsychiatric complications as well as outcome following liver transplantation. Nutritional assessment in patients with cirrhosis is challenging owing to confounding factors related to liver failure. The objectives of nutritional intervention in cirrhotic patients are the support of liver regeneration, the prevention or correction of specific nutritional deficiencies and the prevention and/or treatment of the complications
of liver disease per se and of liver transplantation
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