Changes in Body Composition and Nutritional Status in Patients Undergoing Liver Transplantation

Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Liver Cirrhosis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02023190

LT01

Details and patient eligibility

About

Liver transplant is the goal treatment for every patient with end-stage chronic liver disease.

Quality of life improves after transplant because the main complications of end-stage liver disease disappear, but due to immunosuppression other alterations appear such as metabolic alterations, weight gain, among others.

Body composition and nutritional status can be affected do to post-transplant pharmacologic therapy.

Full description

Body composition and nutritional status can be affected due to post-transplant pharmacologic therapy.

This is a prospective cohort study, patients from liver transplant waiting list will be assessed, pre and post-transplant measures of body composition and nutritional status will be obtained.

Enrollment: 60 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Liver cirrhosis (any etiology)
• Enrolled in waiting list for tliver transplant

Exclusion criteria

• Hepatocellular carcinoma
• Chronic renal failure
• Congestive cardiac failure
• Extremity amputation
• Pregnancy

Trial design

60 participants in 1 patient group

Nutritional assessment

Description:

Nutritional assessment will be performed by bioelectrical impedance vector analysis