practice Monograph on anorexia-cachexia and malnutrition in patients with cancer that can be applied to other pathologies with this syndrome in the elderly may be dementia, heart failure .. is author Dr. Paula J. Fonseca, Medical Oncology Service of Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain.
After a brief introductory chapter and another on the prevalence syndrome, in Chapter 3 devotes a section to make a good summary of the pathogenesis and two paragraphs to the demonstrations clínicas.Para diagnosis, which devotes a chapter, the history and physical examination including anthropometric data, are actions basic. They are also very useful scales recommended to assess quickly the risk of malnutrition, Malnutrition Screening Tool-MST, and the scale VGS-GP-Generated Subjective Global Assessment, Patient useful for deciding on the action nutricional.Un apart for the treatment of anorexia, which cites that the megestrol acetate is the only one that has shown benefit in improving appetite, one for the dietary management where information of the different diets (nutritional supplements, diet adapted, nutrient modules ..) and a third section on the therapeutic approach according to the degree of malnutrition calculated VSG-GP scale completes the chapter treatment. The monograph ends with some nutritional tips to prevent cancer and some brief conclusions.
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