[ARTIFICIAL NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT IN HIV INFECTION: REPORTOF ONE CASE]
The present work describes the first case of HIV infected patient admitted to nutritional therapy in a multidisciplinary Nutritional Support Unit in Perú, and is the first of this type published in Perú. We show the case of a teen-ager patient with severe gastrointestinal and nutritional alterations as a complication of HIV infection, who required parenteral total nutrition for 21 days. During this treatment period we did not observe any complication as result of nutritional intervention; on the contrary, we observed a great clinical improvement and an adecuated nutritional response trough the most recognized biochemical parameters and using Body composition by Impedanciometry, a new technic for our country.
Portanova R
Michel
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