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Protein energy malnutrition echocardiography or ultrasound
Introduction
Overview
Overview
Echocardiography findings may be helpful in the diagnosis of protein-energy malnutrition. Findings on an echocardiography suggestive of protein-energy malnutrition include decrease of R wave and QTc interval, decreased cardiac index which improved significantly after rehabilitation.
Echocardiography or Ultrasound
Echocardiography or Ultrasound
Echocardiography findings may be helpful in the diagnosis of protein-energy malnutrition. Findings on an echocardiography suggestive of protein-energy malnutrition include:[1]
- Decrease of R wave and QTc interval
- Decreased cardiac index which improved significantly after rehabilitation
References
References
- ↑ El-Sayed HL, Nassar MF, Habib NM, Elmasry OA, Gomaa SM (2006). “Structural and functional affection of the heart in protein energy malnutrition patients on admission and after nutritional recovery”. Eur J Clin Nutr. 60 (4): 502–10. doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602344. PMID 16319835.
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