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Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases > Nutrition Disorders > Malnutrition > Refeeding Syndrome

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Refeeding Syndrome  

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Scope note

  • A condition of metabolic imbalance that is caused by complications of initially feeding a severely malnourished patient too aggressively. Usually occurring within the first 5 days of refeeding, this syndrome is characterized by WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS; and DIARRHEA.

History note

  • 2009

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D055677

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