Nutritional Status and Nutritional Support in Patients with Gastrointestinal Diseases

Dear Colleagues,

Gastrointestinal diseases include a wide spectrum of functional and structural disorders of the alimentary tract, as well as the liver, biliary tract, and pancreas. Structural gastrointestinal diseases include different inflammatory (acute and chronic pancreatitis, inflammatory bowel diseases) and neoplastic diseases. The digestive tract is responsible for ingestion, digestion, and absorption. Patients with gastrointestinal diseases suffer from loss of appetite, dysphagia, abdominal pain, and diarrhoea which lead to reduced food intake, maldigestion, and malabsorption. Also, the nutritional status in patients with gastrointestinal disorders is deteriorated by the adverse effect of the disease treatments including drugs, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, and surgery. Proper and early detection of malnutrition allows for effective nutritional support which improves the treatment results, patients’ prognosis, and quality of life. Immunomodulating nutrition, including glutamine, arginine, omega-3 fatty acids, and nucleotides, by modulating immune and inflammatory response improves the treatment results and patient prognoses, decreases the rate of postoperative infectious complications, and shortens hospital stays in patients undergoing surgery. This Special Issue on the “Nutritional Status and Nutritional Support in Patients with Gastrointestinal Diseases” will focus on all aspects regarding the assessment of nutritional status as well as nutritional support in patients with gastrointestinal diseases. Original research and review papers are invited.

Dr. Beata Jabłońska
Guest Editor

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