title: [Failure to thrive in childhood].
abstract: Failure to thrive is a state of malnutrition in a child due to inadequate caloric intake, inadequate caloric absorption, or excessive caloric expenditure. This all can lead to underweight and retarded growing, but also to a possible impairment of the immune system, as well as an impairment of the psychomotoric and cognitive development of a child. The aim of this article is to offer sound knowledge to the practising physician about definition, prevalence, etiology, diagnostic evaluation and therapy of failure to thrive.
authors.affiliation: Pädiatrische Gastroenterologie und Ernährung, Universitäts Kinderspital beider Basel UKBB, Basel.
authors.forename: Raoul I
authors.initials: RI
authors.lastname: Furlano
authors.forename: Marc A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Sidler
authors.forename: Henrik
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Köhler
mesh_terms: D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004035:Diet Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D005183:Failure to Thrive / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D044342:Malnutrition / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*