Malnutrition, sarcopenia, and refractory ascites in end stage liver diseases: is there a way to climb back up?

The recently published guidelines on nutrition in chronic liver disease, proposed by the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), offer a wide panorama of the most important recommendations on malnutrition in cirrhotic patients [1]. Nevertheless, as stated by the authors, it is still controversial whether malnutrition in decompensated liver disease can be reversed by the proposed nutritional strategies (late evening oral nutritional supplementation and breakfast in a dietary regimen, branched chain amino acid supplements, leucine-enriched amino acid supplements, improvement of diet palatability and enteral or parenteral nutrition) [1].
Source: Digestive and Liver Disease - Category: Gastroenterology Authors: Tags: Correspondence Source Type: research