Malnutrition is widely prevalent among patients on hemodialysis. Malnutrition can be estimated using a fully quantitative scoring system Subjective Global Assessment-Dialysis Malnutrition Score which is simple, reliable and dynamic. The primary objective of the study was to assess the severity of malnutrition in patients with end stage renal disease and undergoing hemodialysis in a tertiary car...

Objective: Due to the increase in elderly population, there is an chronic diseases, infections, depression , and nutritional problems as well a decrease cognitive abilities. This study aimed investigate effects of status, symptoms demographic characteristics on dementia population. Materials Methods: cross-sectional analytic which took place between first day April June 2018 three family health...

Background: Malnutrition increases postoperative complications in pediatric surgical patients. Objective: The aim of the present study was to examine whether preoperative nutritional status had any effect on outcomes patients with acute appendicitis who were need emergency surgery. Methods: This retrospective clinical carried out at Department Pediatric Surgery, Adana City Training and Research...

Background Worldwide, malnutrition affects 20-50% of patients admitted to hospitals. Malnutrition has a high impact in clinical outcomes and cost of healthcare. In Romania, there is a general lack of hospital malnutrition data, and also of malnutrition prevalence in infectious diseases hospitals. Objective: to assess malnutrition risk and associated factors in hospitalized patients with infecti...

traumatic brain injury is a common entity. however cerebral infarction in infants is a rare entity while the diagnosis of this pathology in the pediatric population is usually difficult. the mild head trauma is rarely accompanied by intracranial injury and even less, with cerebral infarction. we herein report the first case of cerebral infarction after a mild brain trauma in a 2-year-old latin-...

background: the nonamnesic type of mild cognitive impairment (na?mci) is predementia state with subtle decline incognitive domains except memory. although cognitive rehabilitation (cr) has been investigated in amnesic type of mci, we could not find any trial that rehabilitated na?mci exclusively. we studied the effectiveness of cr on na?mci. materials and methods: this study was a blinded, rand...

although protein-calorie malnutrition is common among the hemodialysis patients and is associated with increased rates of morbidity and mortality, assessment of nutritional status of these patients is frequently ignored in many dialysis centers. malnutrition can be estimated using a semiquantitative scale, subjective global assessment (sga) but subjective nature of this scale restricts its reli...