PURPOSE OF REVIEW Significant progress has been made in the field of defining and describing the pathophysiology of wasting conditions such as cachexia. The number of new promising drugs, nutritional therapy alternatives, and exercise/rehabilitation programs is increasing. The purpose of this review is to give an overview of recent clinical findings from intervention studies investigating multi...

The Guidelines Project, an initiative of the Brazilian Medical Association, aims to combine information from the medical field in order to standardize procedures to assist the reasoning and decision-making of doctors. The information provided through this project must be assessed and criticized by the physician responsible for the conduct that will be adopted, depending on the conditions and th...

Sepsis commonly occurs in severe post-burn patients, often resulting in death. We aimed to evaluate the influence of early enteral feeding on outcomes in patients with extensive burns, including infection incidence, healing and mortality. We retrospectively reviewed 60 patients with extensive burns, 35 who had received early enteral nutrition and 25 who had received parenteral nutrition. Averag...

Nutrient intake plays a significant role in the health outcomes of all pregnant women. In a pregnancy complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM), excellent glucose control is as foundational as appropriate weight gain and adequate nutrient intake. The controversies in GDM management include the following: how far to manipulate energy intake, dietary composition (carbohydrates and fats),...

Without doubt, in medicine as in life, one size does not fit all. We do not administer the same drug or dose to every patient at all times, so why then would we live under the illusion that we should give the same nutrition at all times in the continuum of critical illness? We have long lived under the assumption that critical illness and trauma lead to a consistent early increase in metabolic/...

Akçaağaç şurubu idrar hastalığı, dallı zincirli a-ketoasit dehidrojenaz enzim kompleksinin olmaması veya yeterli üretilememesi sonucu aminoasitler ve metabolitlerinin birikmesiyle ortaya çıkan otozomal resesif geçişli nadir görülen bir hastalıktır. Hastalığın farklı fenotip özellik gösteren türleri bulunmaktadır. Hafif belirtilerden koma ölüme kadar gidebilen geniş aralıkta bulgular gösterebilm...