TY - CHAP M1 - Book, Section TI - Nutrition in Acute Liver Failure and Acute Pancreatitis A1 - Lerner, Diana A1 - Werlin, Steven A2 - Goday, Praveen S. A2 - Mehta, Nilesh M. Y1 - 2015 N1 - T2 - Pediatric Critical Care Nutrition AB - Liver failure is a final common pathway for a broad range of diagnoses. In the patient with liver failure, accurate nutritional assessment may be complicated by fluid shifts and organomegaly. Nutrition therapy in this population can be complex due to metabolic and electrolyte derangements. When chronic liver disease (CLD) is present, malabsorption of fats and fat-soluble vitamins may lead to multiple nutritional deficiencies. Liver failure requiring admission to the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) can be divided into 2 categories: acute liver failure (ALF) and acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF). Even during early stages of disease, impaired nutritional status has been associated with poor clinical outcome and higher morbidity and mortality in the posttransplant period.1-3 This chapter will review some of the underlying causes of malnutrition and provide recommendations for assessment and management of nutrition support for patients with liver disease in the PICU setting. SN - PB - McGraw-Hill Education CY - New York, NY Y2 - 2024/04/25 UR - accesspediatrics.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1105179493 ER -