OBJECTIVE To analyze the nutritional status of pediatric patients after orthotopic liver transplantation and the relationship with short-term clinical outcome. METHOD Anthropometric evaluations of 60 children and adolescents after orthotopic liver transplantation, during the first 24 hours in a tertiary pediatric intensive care unit. Nutritional status was determined from the Z score for the ...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition can be considered the most common disease in hospitals due to its high prevalence. AIM To investigate the methods of evaluation of the nutritional status that better correlate with postoperative complications and the length of hospital stay in patients submitted to gastrointestinal or abdominal wall surgeries. METHODS This is a retrospective evaluation of 215 nutriti...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effects of SGB in BCRL patients and the efficacy of corticosteroids in SGB. STUDY DESIGN A double-blinded, randomized, controlled trial. SETTING A single academic hospital, outpatient setting. METHODS In total, 32 patients with BCRL were recruited. Patients were divided randomly into 3 groups (Group A: 0.5% bupivacaine 5 mL, n = 12; Group B: 0.5% bupivacaine 4.5...

The present community based cross-sectional study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of undernutrition using mid-upper arm circumference (MUAC) among adult (> 18 years) Santals of Purulia District, West Bengal, India. It was undertaken at 10 villages of the district. A total of 520 (217 males and 303 females) subjects were measured. Commonly used indicator i.e., MUAC and BMI, were used ...

There is growing evidence showing that some chemotherapeutic agents employed for oncology treatments contribute to the induction of anorexia, leading weight loss and reduction muscle mass due effects treatment tumor, which may trigger cachexia syndrome. Owing complexity diagnosis body evaluation in these patients, objective this study was evaluate nutritional status patients submitted chemother...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to estimate the dominant handgrip strength and its correlations with some hand and arm anthropometric variables in 101 randomly selected Indian inter-university female volleyball players aged 18-25 years (mean age 20.52±1.40) from six Indian universities. METHODS Three anthropometric variables, i.e. height, weight, BMI, two hand anthropometric variables, ...

: Muscle weakness and wasting is increasingly recognized as a problem in children admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). could potentially affect child’s function development, imposing burden on child their families. We aimed summarize literature muscle critically ill children, discuss methods measure changes well areas for future research. Intensive has been reported through num...

PURPOSE The primary aim of this study is to determine the principal somatic and motor determinants for elite climbers. METHODS Twenty climbers were examined [age: 28.5±6.1 years].The runners were divided into two groups based on their climbing level, according to the International Rock Climbing Research Association (IRCRA). Elite climbers represented a 8b-8c Rotpunkt (RP) climbing level (n = ...