1. The risk of refeeding syndrome among severely malnourished tuberculosis patients in Chhattisgarh, India.
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Chebrolu P, Laux T, Chowdhury S, Seth B, Ranade P, Goswami J, and Chatterjee S
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- Adult, Aged, Animals, Diabetes Mellitus drug therapy, Female, Humans, Hypoalbuminemia blood, Hypoalbuminemia complications, Hypoglycemic Agents therapeutic use, Hypophosphatemia blood, Hypophosphatemia epidemiology, India epidemiology, Insulin therapeutic use, Male, Middle Aged, Prospective Studies, Protein-Energy Malnutrition complications, Refeeding Syndrome blood, Risk Factors, Thinness epidemiology, Tuberculosis complications, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary complications, Tuberculosis, Pulmonary drug therapy, Water-Electrolyte Imbalance epidemiology, Young Adult, Energy Intake, Protein-Energy Malnutrition diet therapy, Refeeding Syndrome epidemiology, Tuberculosis drug therapy
- Abstract
Background: A secondary care hospital in rural India serving a highly tuberculosis (TB) and malnutrition endemic region., Objective: In this study conducted on patients with chronic protein energy malnutrition (PEM) and TB, we sought to compare nurse-estimated vs. smartphone photograph analytic methods for assessing caloric intake and determine the incidence of refeeding hypophosphatemia (RH) and refeeding syndrome (RFS) in patients with TB., Methods: Inpatients were prospectively enrolled. Baseline demographic, comorbidity and preadmission caloric data were collected. Nurse estimated caloric intake was compared with digital "before and after" meal images. Serum phosphorus was measured on days 1, 3 and 7 post admission. Patients with RH underwent further evaluation for RFS-associated findings., Results: 27 patients were enrolled. 85% were at risk of RFS by National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) criteria. Significant discrepancy (>700 calories) was noted between nurse-estimated caloric intake compared to digital images. RH was found in 37% (10/27). None developed clinical RFS., Conclusions: Our study suggests more standardized methods of caloric intake are needed in resource-limited settings with high co-prevalence of PEM and TB. We noted that despite RH being common in inpatients with PEM+TB given high caloric diets, RFS was not detected., (Copyright © 2019. Published by Elsevier B.V.)
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- 2020
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