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Refeeding syndrome
1Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Box 135, Addenbrooke's Hospital, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 2QQ, UK. mark.mallet@ntlworld.com
Age and Ageing
|February 19, 2002
Abstract
Case Report:
An elderly woman with poor nutritional intake developed profound hypophosphataemia and hypokalaemia following the institution of nasogastric feeding.
Discussion:
Refeeding syndrome is well recognized in certain undernourished groups of patients, but may not be so well known to physicians looking after elderly patients, whose nutritional status may be more deficient than is originally apparent.