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  title info:
    title: Cachexia and Wasting: A Modern Approach
  name:
    name part: Mantovani, Giovanni.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Anker, Stefan D.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Inui, Akio.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Morley, John E.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Fanelli, Filippo Rossi.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Scevola, Daniele.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Schuster, Michael W.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Yeh, Shing-Shing.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: it
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXII, 756 p. 130 illus., 110 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: Cachexia may well represent the flip side of the tremendous achievements of modern medicine. Many diseases rapidly leading patients to death just a few years ago, are now better controlled by new therapies, and even if we cannot cure and eradicate them, their natural history has significantly increased by months and years. Although these new therapeutic strategies represent a remarkable advantage over the standards of care, it is impossible to ignore that many more patients are now facing the nutritional consequences of prolonged immunological and metabolic challenges deriving from ongoing diseases and aggressive therapies. Aim of the volume, written by world-renowned scientists, is to provide the best available evidence on the pathogenesis, clinical features and therapeutic approach of cachexia, and to facilitate the understanding of the complex yet unequivocal clinical role of this syndrome, that truly represents a disease, or, better still, a disease within other different diseases.
  table of contents: Anatomy, Historical Perspective and Epidemiology -- Functional Anatomy of the ‘Adipose Organ’ -- Body Silhouette and Body Fat Distribution -- Historic Views on Cachexia in Humans with Special Reference to Cardiac Cachexia -- Epidemiology of Cachexia -- Biochemistry, Physiology and ‘Clinics’ of Adipose Tissue -- Energy Values of Foods -- Diet-Induced Thermogenesis -- Assessment of Nutritional Status -- Biochemical Parameters of Nutrition -- Nitrogen Balance and Protein Requirements: Definition and Measurements -- Plasma Proteins and Protein Catabolism -- Nutritional Status Assessment -- Immunological Parameters of Nutrition -- Functional Parameters of Nutrition -- The Different Features of Wasting in Humans -- Anorexia -- Starvation: Social, Voluntary, and Involuntary Causes of Weight Loss -- Cachexia Related to Multiple Causes -- Non-AIDS Lipodystrophy Syndrome -- Pathophysiology of Wasting/Cachexia -- Body Composition: Physiology, Pathophysiology and Methods of Evaluation -- Protein Metabolism in Cachexia -- Lipid Metabolism in Cachexia -- Glucose Metabolism -- Cytokines in Cachexia -- Cytokines in Chronic Inflammation -- Biochemistry of the Growth Hormone-Releasing Peptides, Secretagogues and Ghrelin -- Ghrelin as a New Factor in the Central Network Controlling Appetite and Food Intake -- Leptin and Des-acyl Ghrelin: Their Role in Physiological Body Weight Regulation and in the Pathological State -- Brain Mechanisms in Wasting and Cachexia -- Body Weight Regulation and Hypothalamic Neuropeptides -- Medical Causes of Wasting/Cachexia -- Diabetes -- Endocrine Disorders -- Psychiatric Diseases and Depression -- Cachexia in Chronic Kidney Disease: Malnutrition-Inflammation Complex and Reverse Epidemiology -- Gastrointestinal Diseases -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and Treatment of COPD-Related Cachexia -- Cachexia in Cardiovascular Illness -- Cachexia and Ageing -- Epidemiology of Malnutrition in the Elderly -- Pathophysiology of Body Composition Chan…
  note: edited by Giovanni Mantovani, Stefan D. Anker, Akio Inui, John E. Morley, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Daniele Scevola, Michael W. Schuster, Shing-Shing Yeh.
  subject:
    topic: Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Internal medicine
  subject:
    topic: Infectious diseases
  subject:
    topic: Metabolic diseases
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics
  subject:
    topic: Oncology
  subject:
    topic: Medicine & Public Health
  subject:
    topic: Oncology
  subject:
    topic: Internal Medicine
  subject:
    topic: Geriatrics/Gerontology
  subject:
    topic: Infectious Diseases
  subject:
    topic: Metabolic Diseases
  classification: RC254-282
  classification: 616.994
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      title: Springer eBooks
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