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Invited Review: A Review of Nutrition Support for Transplant Patients
Author(s) -
Baron Pedro,
Waymack J. Paul
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
nutrition in clinical practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.725
H-Index - 71
eISSN - 1941-2452
pISSN - 0884-5336
DOI - 10.1177/011542659300800112
Subject(s) - medicine , immunosuppression , intensive care medicine , transplantation , organ transplantation , disease , stage (stratigraphy) , surgery , paleontology , biology
Renal, hepatic, and cardiac transplantation are now recognized as acceptable methods for treating end‐stage organ failure. Obtaining optimum results in such patients requires not only skillful surgical technique and postoperative immunosuppression but also stabilization of the patient preoperatively. This stabilization includes a number of physiologic parameters. One of the most important of these is the correction of preexisting nutritional deficits. Each type of end‐stage organ disease creates unique nutritional problems. This article reviews these deficiencies and makes recommendations as to the appropriate nutrition protocols that can optimize results in the patient who undergoes organ transplantation.