Nutritional Management of a Patient suffering with Non Alcoholic Steato-hepatitis related Chronic Liver Disease
Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: Liver patients suffer from malnutrition very commonly. It has been observed in many researches that these patients lose their lean body mass, fat mass, muscle strength and thus overall functional capacity. Through adequate diet, these modifiable symptoms can be reduced to some extent. Therefore, present case study was taken to find out nutritional status and nutritional management of a 55 years old male suffering from decompensated chronic liver disease. It was observed that the patient was severely malnourished on the basis of dry body weight, impaired liver function test, presence of jaundice, portal hypertension, ascitis, anorexia, poor dietary intake. The patient was given high calorie high protein diet during hospitalization and was motivated to eat more food. At the time of discharge, his liver function test, creatinine, total protein and haemoglobin were found to be improved with a simultaneous increase in diet intake. Thus timely nutritional assessment and tailored intervention proves fruitful for better outcome.
Author: Manisha Kanwar
Institution: Banaras Hindu University
Language: English
Subfield: Hepatology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4412373847