Recognize Malnutrition but Avoid Refeeding Syndrome
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Refeeding syndrome
We report a case of a fifty-year-old male who was admitted with a three month history of increasing weakness, prostration, decreasing appetite and inability to swallow. The patient was a chronic alcoholic, unemployed, and of very poor socioeconomic background. The patient was initially investigated for upper GI malignancy, Addisons disease, bulbar palsy and other endocrinopathies. Concurrent ma...
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عنوان ژورنال: The American Journal of Medicine
سال: 2018
ISSN: 0002-9343
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjmed.2017.12.032