Cachexia is common in cancer, yet it is poorly understood in noncancer diagnoses. In this article, Carlson and Dahlin review cancer cachexia in cardiac disease. The definition, pathophysiology, and ...

Cardiac cachexia is the weight loss and decrease in appetite that occurs during states of chronically low cardiac output and congestive heart failure. This gives a poor prognosis independent of other ...

Whenever cardiac insufficiency or serious heart defects worsen, such deterioration is often associated with a loss of muscular mass and muscular strength. Scientists have now succeeded in identifying ...

THE striking degree of malnutrition that may accompany chronic congestive heart failure has been termed cardiac cachexia. Hippocrates was perhaps the first to record this association between dropsy ...