title: Adjuvant nutrition management of patients with liver failure, including transplant.
abstract: This article reviews nutrition support in patients with liver disease, including those who are undergoing surgery or liver transplant. The topics covered include the multifactorial etiology of malnutrition, nutritional assessment, and nutritional therapy. Recommendations for use of both enteral and parenteral nutrition are given in patients with alcoholic hepatitis, cirrhosis, and acute liver failure and in patients undergoing surgery or liver transplant.
authors.affiliation: Acute Care Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Florida College of Medicine-Jacksonville, 655 West 8th Street, Jacksonville, FL 32209, USA. andy.kerwin@jax.ufl.edu
authors.forename: Andrew J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Kerwin
authors.forename: Michael S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Nussbaum
mesh_terms: D002149:Energy Intake; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006519:Hepatitis, Alcoholic / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D007333:Insulin Resistance; D008103:Liver Cirrhosis / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000628:therapy; D017093:Liver Failure / Q000150:complications* / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery* / Q000628:therapy; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D009752:Nutritional Status; D018529:Nutritional Support; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D011502:Protein-Energy Malnutrition / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy