Diet, Nutrition and Liver Disease
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 February 2025 | Viewed by 83
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Overnutrition, as well as undernutrition, plays a major prognostic role in patients suffering from liver disease. In chronic liver disease, impaired body composition and malnutrition are common findings. In recent years, however, the clinical presentation has changed with an increasing proportion of obese and sarcopenic obese liver patients. Therefore, simple anthropometric tools like BMI fail to identify malnourished patients. More accurate and robust, preferably bedside, tools are needed to adequately assess the nutritional metabolic status as an estimate of the patient’s capacity to successfully meet the metabolic challenge of liver disease. More often than not, the potential of metabolic management by nutritional support remains unrecognized and underused.
This Special Issue of Nutrients puts a focus on clinical nutrition in patients with liver disease. The objectives of nutritional metabolic management are (1) to detect the need for intervention due to a mismatch between nutritional metabolic status and metabolic challenge in the individual patient, (2) to implement in a timely manner evidence-based nutritional metabolic management, (3) to monitor the outcome of nutritional metabolic management, and (4) to identify and address open questions by high-quality research in the following conditions: acute liver failure; acute-on-chronic liver failure; alcohol-associated liver disease; metabolic dysfunction-associated liver disease; advanced chronic liver disease including liver cirrhosis, liver transplantation, and surgery in liver patients; and nutrition-associated liver injury.
Prof. Dr. Mathias Plauth
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- sarcopenia
- nutrition-associated liver injury
- acute liver failure
- fatty liver disease
- alcoholic steatohepatitis
- non-alcoholic steatohepatitis
- liver cirrhosis
- liver transplantation
- nutritional support
- malnutrition
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