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Descriptor English: Refeeding Syndrome
Descriptor Spanish: Síndrome de Realimentación
Descriptor síndrome de realimentación
Scope note: Desequilibrio metabólico causado por las complicaciones de comenzar a alimentar a un paciente gravemente desnutrido de una forma demasiado agresiva. Generalmente ocurre dentro de los primeros 5 días de la realimentación. Este síndrome se caracteriza por DESEQUILIBRIO HIDROELECTROLÍTICO, INTOLERANCIA A LA GLUCOSA, ARRITMIAS CARDÍACAS  y  DIARREA.
Descriptor Portuguese: Síndrome da Realimentação
Descriptor French: Syndrome de renutrition
Entry term(s): Syndrome, Refeeding
Tree number(s): C18.654.521.687
RDF Unique Identifier: https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D055677
Scope note: A condition of metabolic imbalance that is caused by complications of initially feeding a severely malnourished patient too aggressively. Usually occurring within the first 5 days of refeeding, this syndrome is characterized by WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS; and DIARRHEA.
Allowable Qualifiers: BL blood
CF cerebrospinal fluid
CI chemically induced
CL classification
CN congenital
CO complications
DG diagnostic imaging
DH diet therapy
DI diagnosis
DT drug therapy
EC economics
EH ethnology
EM embryology
EN enzymology
EP epidemiology
ET etiology
GE genetics
HI history
IM immunology
ME metabolism
MI microbiology
MO mortality
NU nursing
PA pathology
PC prevention & control
PP physiopathology
PS parasitology
PX psychology
RH rehabilitation
RT radiotherapy
SU surgery
TH therapy
UR urine
VE veterinary
VI virology
Public MeSH Note: 2009
History Note: 2009
DeCS ID: 53105
Unique ID: D055677
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Date Established: 2009/01/01
Date of Entry: 2008/07/08
Refeeding Syndrome - Preferred
Concept UI M0519452
Scope note A condition of metabolic imbalance that is caused by complications of initially feeding a severely malnourished patient too aggressively. Usually occurring within the first 5 days of refeeding, this syndrome is characterized by WATER-ELECTROLYTE IMBALANCE; GLUCOSE INTOLERANCE; CARDIAC ARRHYTHMIAS; and DIARRHEA.
Preferred term Refeeding Syndrome
Entry term(s) Syndrome, Refeeding



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