Hyponatremia is the most frequent electrolyte disorder in critically ill neurological patients. The major differential diagnoses in this situation are the syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion, marked by inappropriate retention of free water, and cerebral salt wasting, characterized by excessive urinary loss of sodium and resulting in polyuria and extracellular volume contrac...

BACKGROUND Information regarding dietary nutrient intake during tuberculosis disease is lacking. We established the relationship between disease severity or wasting during pulmonary tuberculosis and nutrient intake. METHODS In a cross-sectional study of 131 adults with or without pulmonary tuberculosis were screened for human immune-deficiency virus (HIV), wasting, disease severity using 13 i...

The term uraemic myopathy has been used loosely to describe the skeletal muscle abnormalities in uraemic patients. However, it does not fully explain the observed abnormalities as recent research has documented a normal skeletal muscle physiology in the presence of reduced muscle force, selective structural changes and significant muscle wasting. Ageing is associated with sarcopenia (muscle was...

The term uraemic myopathy has been used loosely to describe the skeletal muscle abnormalities in uraemic patients. However, it does not fully explain the observed abnormalities as recent research has documented a normal skeletal muscle physiology in the presence of reduced muscle force, selective structural changes and significant muscle wasting. Ageing is associated with sarcopenia (muscle was...

http://www.aasp.org/shap/issues/v5n5/index.html ostweaning multisystemic wasting syndrome (PMWS) is a new disease first described in 1996.1,2 In the past 6–8, months the number of affected herds has grown considerably, and there are now confirmed cases in Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba, Quebec, California, Iowa, Indiana, and Spain. Furthermore, since 1994, a similar syndrome—”wasting disease o...

In the original publication the initial letters for author T. Alp Ikizler had been printed in reverse order.

Drosophila melanogaster infected with Mycobacterium marinum suffer metabolic wasting similar to that seen in humans suffering from tuberculosis. This wasting is linked to insulin signaling and hastens host death.