Methods for Nutritional Assessment in Cirrhosis

Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Medicas y Nutricion Salvador Zubiran

Status: Unknown

Conditions: Malnutrition; Liver Cirrhosis; Cachexia

Treatments: Other: Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02926261

BIVA0978

Details and patient eligibility

About

Nutritional status in patients with cirrhosis has been shown to have a direct influence on the prognosis of these patients, it is related to higher mortality and it has been linked to the developement and perpetuation of certain complications such as hepatic encephalopathy, ascites and spontaneous bacterial peritonitis.

Despite the importance of nutritional status in this patients, most of the methods for its assessment are still not completely reliable or not easily accessible; therefore, evaluating nutritional status in the daily clinical practice is still a complex task.

Enrollment: 180 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 75 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of cirrhosis
• No restriction of etiology
• 18-75 years
• Child-Pugh stage A/B/C
• Signed informed consent

Exclusion criteria

• Pregnancy
• Extremity amputation
• Malignancy different from hepatocellular carcinoma