Diabetic neuropathic cachexia: the importance of positive recognition and early nutritional support.
We report on a patient with acute painful diabetic neuropathy in whom abdominal pain and severe weight loss mimicked neoplastic disease. Positive recognition of the diabetic neuropathic cachexia syndrome might have avoided extensive invasive investigation. Intensive enteral nutritional support was associated with prompt resolution.
van Heel
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Department of Gastroenterology, Royal Berks Hospital, Reading, UK.
Levitt
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Winter
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D000328:Adult; D002100:Cachexia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy; D003922:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1 / Q000150:complications*; D003929:Diabetic Neuropathies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015431:Weight Loss