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Nutrition in chronic liver disease and liver transplantation
1Department of Gastroenterology, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Catalonia, Spain.
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care
|November 24, 1999
Abstract:
Significant contributions to the field of nutrition and liver disease have been published in the last year. The most relevant includes work on the pathogenic role of energy metabolism disturbances in the development of malnutrition in cirrhosis, as well as data on the relationship between preoperative nutritional deficiencies and the outcome of liver transplantation. However, despite these contributions, large-scale multicentric trials on the therapeutic value of nutritional support and metabolic care in cirrhosis and liver transplantation are still lacking.