Cachexia and Wasting: A Modern Approach / edited by Giovanni Mantovani, Stefan D. Anker, Akio Inui, John E. Morley, Filippo Rossi Fanelli, Daniele Scevola, Michael W. Schuster, Shing-Shing Yeh

Daniele Scevo.

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 dis.

Medienart:

E-Book

Erscheinungsjahr:

2006

Erschienen:

Milano: Springer-Verlag Italia ; 2006

Reihe:

SpringerLink, Bücher

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Mantovani, Giovanni [Sonstige Person]
Anker, Stefan [Sonstige Person]
Fanelli, Filippo Rossi [Sonstige Person]
Inui, Akio [Sonstige Person]
Morley, John E., 1946- [Sonstige Person]
Scevola, Daniele [Sonstige Person]
Schuster, Michael W. [Sonstige Person]
Yeh, Shing-Shing [Sonstige Person]

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

ISBN:

978-88-470-0552-5

Nlm:

WB 146

Themen:

Cachexia
Emerging infectious diseases
Geriatrics
Internal medicine
Kachexie
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Metabolic diseases
Oncology
Wasting Syndrome
Wastingsyndrom

RVK:

RVK Klassifikation

Anmerkungen:

Includes bibliographical references

Umfang:

Online-Ressource (XXII, 758 p, digital)

doi:

10.1007/978-88-470-0552-5

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

1646760859