Early oral feeding is the preferred mode of nutrition for surgical patients. Avoidance of any
nutritional therapy bears the risk of underfeeding during the postoperative course after major …

Patients with cancer are at particularly high risk for malnutrition because both the disease
and its treatments threaten their nutritional status. Yet cancer-related nutritional risk is …

Background & aims Malnutrition has been recognized as a major risk factor for adverse
postoperative outcomes. The ESPEN Symposium on perioperative nutrition was held in …

Background The worldwide debate over the use of artificial nutrition and hydration remains
controversial although the scientific and medical facts are unequivocal. Artificial nutrition and …

In modern surgical practice it is advisable to manage patients within an enhanced recovery
protocol and thereby have them eating normal food within 1–3days. Consequently, there is …

Enhanced recovery of patients after surgery (“ERAS”) has become an important focus of
perioperative management. From a metabolic and nutritional point of view, the key aspects of …

Population-level comparisons of prokaryotic genomes must take into account the substantial
differences in gene content resulting from horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and …

BACKGROUND & AIMS: Malnutrition is frequently observed in chronic and severe diseases
and associated with impaired outcome. In Germany general data on prevalence and impact …

Accurate measurement of low levels of 8-oxo-7, 8-dihydro-2'-deoxyguanosine (8-oxodGuo)
in DNA is hampered by the ease with which guanine is oxidized during preparation of DNA …

Conclusion. PEM is common in chronic liver disease and positively correlated with
functional severity of the liver injury.