What is it about?
The study focused on pre liver transplant malnutrition assessed by SGA with outcomes of liver transplantation like mortality, hospital stay and blood product usage during surgery.
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Why is it important?
This study is important because it focuses on the effect of malnutrition on severity of disease and prognosis of treatment. Hence, it focuses on importance of nutrition intervention before liver transplantation.
Perspectives
This work portrays the need of aggressive nutrition intervention before liver transplantation for better outcomes of the surgery.
Ms Neha Bakshi
Delhi University
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This page is a summary of: Effect of Pre-Transplant Malnutrition on Outcomes of Liver Transplantation, Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hepatology, July 2016, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jceh.2016.06.063.
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