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Background: Malnutrition at hospital admission has negative impact on clinical outcomes such as patients’ hospital length of stay, rehospitalization and death. The aim of the current study is to present a case report describing the nutritional status of a critically ill patient with chagasic heart disease who was hospitalized in the intensive care unit of a hospital in Santo Antonio de Jesus County, Bahia State. Methods: Socioeconomic data, laboratory exams, anthropometric parameters and objective measurements such as Prognostic Nutritional Index, Nutritional Risk Index and Controlling Nutritional Status were taken of the patient in the current study is a 62-year-old with chronic Chagas’ cardiomyopathy present electrocardiographic abnormalities with progressive myocardial injury, heart failure or dilated cardiomyopathy pattern when hospitalized in the intensive care unit. Results: Laboratory exams were associated with severe cardiac impairment, decompensation and myocardial damage. Nutritional indicators, such as arm circumference, elbow width, body mass index, serum albumin, lymphocyte count, Prognostic Nutritional and Nutritional Risk Indexes and Controlling Nutritional Status showed a poor nutritional prognosis. Conclusion: There are no formal guidelines for follow-up screening directed specifically at Chagas cardiomyopathy. The present case study corroborates the relevance of as sessing plasma albumin levels, Prognostic Nutritional and Nutritional Risk Indexes and Controlling Nutritional Status to predict the poor prognosis in critically ill patient with Chagasic heart disease.

journal of nutritional medicine and diet care

Nutritional Status Evaluation of a Critically Ill Patient with Chagasic Cardiopathy Treated in an Intensive Care Unit in Santo Antonio de Jesus, Bahia, Brazil: A Case Report