JOURNAL OF PRACTICAL HEPATOLOGY ›› 2018, Vol. 21 ›› Issue (2): 317-320.doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1672-5069.2018.02.048

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Nutritional assessment and treatment in patients with chronic liver diseases

Wang Yanxin, Yu Hongwei, Zhu Yueke   

  1. Department of Critical Care Medicine for Liver Diseases,You’an Hospital,Capital Medical University,Beijing 100036,China
  • Received:2017-03-20 Online:2018-03-10 Published:2018-03-19

Abstract: Patients with chronic liver diseases are inclined to have malnutrition that would increase the risks of poor prognosis,but the mechanism of malnutrition in liver disease is still not well known. The individualized nutritional intervention and nutrients supplement are also hard to be quantitative assessed. In this review,the common assessment methods of malnutrition,nutrient and metabolic features in patients with chronic liver diseases,and advances of nutritional therapy in liver diseases are reviewed,so as to give some enlightenment to the clinical nutrition intervention in chronic liver diseases.

Key words: Chronic liver diseases, Nutrition, Assessment, Treatment