Genesis of Nutritional Oedema

Nutritional Oedema and Consumption Level in Yet Another Food Scarcity Area of Bihar

Refeeding oedema in anorexia nervosa.

Refeeding oedema in patients with anorexia nervosa is a known but yet under-reported and poorly-understood condition. We illustrate this condition in a 19-year-old girl with anorexia nervosa who developed bipedal oedema after she was started on nutritional therapy. It is important to be aware of the differential diagnoses of oedema in such cases, which includes heart failure and previous diuret...

Nutritional assessment and adequacy of dietary intake in hospitalized patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis.

Nutritional assessment and adequacy of spontaneous dietary intake was evaluated in thirty-seven clinically stable hospitalized patients with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. About two-thirds of the patients had ascites or oedema, or both, and, therefore, body weight could not be used for assessment of nutritional status. Lean body mass (LBM; measured by three consecutive 24 h creatinine excretions) w...

A Patient with Many Diseases

The general principle of medical practice of trying to explain a patient's symptoms by one diagnosis is a sound one, but particularly in the tropics it is often quite impracticable. Two or even more diagnoses have often to be made. The case here reported is an extreme example of this. The patient, an adult male, was admitted to the Carmichael Hospital for Tropical Diseases from the Camp for Sic...

Atherosclerosis and the Fat Content

T HE aim of this discussion is to summarize and evaluate evidence for and against the concept that the fat content of the average present-day North American or north European diet is a significant factor in the genesis of cerebral, myocardial, renal, or peripheral atherosclerosis. To date there is no incontrovertible evidence for such a relationship; nevertheless, a strong case is developing to...