Cachexia and Wasting
A Modern Approach
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Beschreibung
Cachexia may well represent the flip side of the tremendous achievements of modern medicine.
Many diseases rapidly leading patients to death just a few years ago, are now better controlled by new therapies, and even if we cannot cure and eradicate them, their natural history has significantly increased by months and years. Although these new therapeutic strategies represent a remarkable advantage over the standards of care, it is impossible to ignore that many more patients are now facing the nutritional consequences of prolonged immunological and metabolic challenges deriving from ongoing diseases and aggressive therapies.
Aim of the volume, written by world-renowned scientists, is to provide the best available evidence on the pathogenesis, clinical features and therapeutic approach of cachexia, and to facilitate the understanding of the complex yet unequivocal clinical role of this syndrome, that truly represents a disease, or, better still, a disease within other different diseases.
Cachexia may well represent the flip side of the tremendous achievements of modern medicine.
Many diseases rapidly leading patients to death just a few years ago, are now better controlled by new therapies, and even if we cannot cure and eradicate them, their natural history has significantly increased by months and years. Although these new therapeutic strategies represent a remarkable advantage over the standards of care, it is impossible to ignore that many more patients are now facing the nutritional consequences of prolonged immunological and metabolic challenges deriving from ongoing diseases and aggressive therapies.
Aim of the volume, written by world-renowned scientists, is to provide the best available evidence on the pathogenesis, clinical features and therapeutic approach of cachexia, and to facilitate the understanding of the complex yet unequivocal clinical role of this syndrome, that truly represents a disease, or, better still, a disease within other different diseases.
Comprehensive text on fat loss, wasting and cachexia in medicine Reference for general practioners, specialists such as oncologists, infectivologists and geriatricians, as well as for students and nurses interested in this topic
Autor*in
Stefan D. Anker
Themen in »Cachexia and Wasting«
Diabetes HIV HIV infection aging assessment cancer depression geriatric oncology geriatrics infectious disease infectious diseases oncology pathophysiology physiology tissue