BACKGROUND AND AIM To asses the nutritional status of hospitalised trauma patients and the repercussion on the clinical follow up. METHODS In a prospective way 161 adult patients admitted to the units of Intensive Care (ICU), General Surgery, Maxillofacial Surgery and Orthopedics of the Centro de Emergencias Médicas in Asunción, Paraguay, from March 2002 to March 2004 were evaluated at admiss...

BACKGROUND The subjective global assessment of nutritional status (SGA) is used to assess the nutritional status of chronic dialysis patients, but longitudinal data in relation to mortality risk are lacking. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to study the long-term and time-dependent associations of the SGA with mortality risk in chronic dialysis patients. DESIGN In a prospective, longitudinal, ob...

UNLABELLED BACKGROUND Malnutrition is prevalent in all forms of liver disease: from 20% in compensated liver disease to more than 80% in those patients with decompensated liver disease. Protein-calorie malnutrition (PCM) can be identified in all clinical stages but is easier observed in advanced stages of liver disease. The presence of malnutrition is associated with increased number of comp...

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is a significant problem in patients with ovarian cancer. The goal of this study was to investigate the prognostic role of Subjective Global Assessment (SGA) in patients with ovarian cancer treated in an integrative cancer treatment setting. METHODS We evaluated a case series of 132 ovarian cancer patients treated at Cancer Treatment Centers of America(R) from Jan 2001...

Weight loss is common in systemic immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis but there are limited data on the impact of nutritional status on outcome. Using the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) score, we prospectively examined nutritional status in 110 consecutive newly-diagnosed, treatment-naïve patients with immunoglobulin light chain amyloidosis attending the UK National ...

OBJECTIVES A study was undertaken to determine which nutritional assessment tool would be better in assessing changes in nutritional status over time in hospitalised older patients. The two tools used were the Mini Nutritional Assessment (MNA) and the Subjective Global Assessment (SGA). DESIGN Single blind, prospective study conducted over a 60-day period. SETTING Five regional hospitals wi...

BACKGROUND The combination of cytoreductive surgery (CRS) and hyperthermic intraperitoneal chemotherapy (HIPEC) is a promising treatment option for selected patients with peritoneal carcinomatosis. This retrospective study investigated the relationship between baseline nutritional assessment with subsequent parenteral nutritional (PN) and clinical outcomes in cancer patients undergoing CRS and ...

Background and aims Patients with cancer frequently present disease-related malnutrition functional decline. The scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA©) is a screening assessment tool commonly used in patients cancer. aim of the current study was to translate culturally adapt original English PG-SGA for Greek setting, including comprehensibility, difficulty content valid...