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[ARTIFICIAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT IN HIV INFECTION: REPORTOF ONE CASE]
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This case study highlights the successful nutritional therapy for a Peruvian teenager with severe HIV complications. Parenteral nutrition led to significant clinical improvement without adverse events.
Area of Science:
- Clinical Nutrition
- Infectious Diseases
- Gastroenterology
Background:
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection can cause severe gastrointestinal and nutritional complications.
- Nutritional support is crucial for managing complex cases, especially in resource-limited settings.
- Limited data exists on specialized nutritional therapy for HIV patients in Peru.
Purpose of the Study:
- To report the first case of an HIV-infected patient receiving specialized nutritional therapy in Peru.
- To describe the management and outcomes of parenteral nutrition in a severely malnourished adolescent with HIV.
- To evaluate the efficacy and safety of nutritional intervention using biochemical and bioimpedanciometry assessments.
Main Methods:
- Case report of a teenage patient with HIV and severe nutritional deficits.
- Administration of total parenteral nutrition (TPN) for 21 days.
- Monitoring of clinical status, biochemical parameters, and body composition via bioimpedanciometry.
Main Results:
- Successful clinical improvement and adequate nutritional response observed during TPN.
- No complications related to the nutritional intervention were reported.
- Bioimpedanciometry indicated positive changes in body composition, a novel technique in Peru.
Conclusions:
- Parenteral nutrition is a safe and effective therapeutic option for HIV-infected patients with severe nutritional complications in Peru.
- Multidisciplinary nutritional support can significantly improve clinical outcomes in this patient population.
- Bioimpedanciometry offers a valuable tool for assessing nutritional status and treatment response in novel settings.
Abstract:
The present work describes the first case of HIV infected patient admitted to nutritional therapy in a multidisciplinary Nutritional Support Unit in Perú, and is the first of this type published in Perú. We show the case of a teen-ager patient with severe gastrointestinal and nutritional alterations as a complication of HIV infection, who required parenteral total nutrition for 21 days. During this treatment period we did not observe any complication as result of nutritional intervention; on the contrary, we observed a great clinical improvement and an adecuated nutritional response trough the most recognized biochemical parameters and using Body composition by Impedanciometry, a new technic for our country.