PedAM
Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines
| Disease | protein-energy malnutrition |
| Phenotype | C0023895|liver disease |
| Sentences | 2 |
| PubMedID- 26419681 | Moreover, protein-energy malnutrition is common in patients with end-stage liver disease requiring lt and closely associated with post-transplant risk of morbidity and mortality.1–3 such patients are usually accompanied by bowel dysfunction after lt due to long surgical durations and wide abdominal incisions, which prevents early postoperative food intake either orally or via an enteral tube and subsequently leads to worsening malnutrition. |
| PubMedID- 21443108 | Background/aims: protein-energy malnutrition is common in patients with end-stage liver disease requiring liver transplantation and is a risk factor for posttransplant morbidity including sepsis. |
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