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 ...
Cachexia is a process that accompanies many chronic diseases, and consists of a combination of wasting of lean body mass, increased energy expenditure, and a paradoxical loss of appetite. Cachexia ...
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 ...
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