Marasmus
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چکیده
The history of human progress is well reflected m^ehanginjie^ marasmus? tors about wasting in infants, which has at differ from the days of infantile atrophy and athrepsia. We have move ona^ ^ the Hieronymus Mercurialis who discusses in hi oiipped to occur and various ways in which " bewitchment "of ^te^ot yield to notes two points to establish the diagnosis, (a) external or internal any natural remedies or skill or (b) if there is no ot er <? dangerous! in the child (or its nurse) A diagnosis of 1 iopa y lit There is eviGreat attempts were made to stem the tide o in a three-quarters of all dence in the London Bills of Mortality that in 173? en(j 0f the children born alive died before they reached tie age 0 before age five, eighteenth century about half the children there In the early history of the Foundling Hospita in on fifteen thousand were terrible years, the calamity of 1756 being the wore infants were brought in and, as a result of overcrow ina, four hundred -d the presence'of mortal acute infection, ^^corn^ the lived to be apprenticed " I A legal measure w ^ mintrv cottages where parishes of London to keep their " parish infants ^ factor the scene they lived and throve. Some light is thrown upon a e , , ^ the of starvation by a verse contained in a hymn which was regularly used
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Lipid kinetic differences between children with kwashiorkor and those with marasmus.
BACKGROUND It has been hypothesized that one factor associated with poor prognosis in kwashiorkor, but not in marasmus, is impaired lipid catabolism, which limits the supply of energy that is essential for survival when dietary intake is inadequate. However, this hypothesis has not been tested. OBJECTIVE The objective was to measure lipid kinetics in malnourished children with kwashiorkor or ...
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I. The concentration of copper in the liver of six African children suffering from marasmus has been compared with the values found for six children from the same area suffering from other diseases. 2. No significant difference was found in the concentration of Cu in the livers of children with marasmus compared with the values for the controls when the results were expressed either on a dry wh...
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Twenty four patients of classical marasmus and kwashiorkor along with equal number of healthy controls were selected for the study. Their serum amino acid patterns analysis revealed a mean ratio of glutamate to alanine in fasting samples of normal individuals to be 0.33, while it as 9.3 in kwashiorkor and 1.6 in marasmus. This differences in controls, kwashiorkor and marasmus was statistically ...
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The purpose of these investigations is to describe the incidence and type of anaemia in marasmus and kwashiorkor, its aetiology and response to treatment. Marasmus and kwashiorkor and their associated anaemias in Kenya are complicated conditions. Besides the usual low serum proteins on admission, infections such as measles, pneumonia, diarrhoea, otitis and intestinal and blood parasites were ge...
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Marasmus is a severe form of protein-calorie malnutrition characterized by the depletion of fat stores, muscle wasting, and the lack of edema. In developed countries, marasmus is often the result of anorexia nervosa. Abnormal transaminases with liver synthetic dysfunction have rarely been reported with anorexia nervosa. To our knowledge, we report the first detailed case of acute liver injury w...
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عنوان ژورنال:
دوره 70 شماره
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تاریخ انتشار 1953