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Cachexia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cachexia (pronounced /kəˈkɛksiə/ ) is loss of weight, muscle atrophy, fatigue, weakness and significant loss of appetite in someone who is not actively trying to lose weight. The formal definit...
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In this study the visibility of being cachectic was a barrier to social engagement for two main reasons. Firstly, the patient's wasted appearance caused ...
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HIV MANAGEMENT IN SELECTED CLINICAL SETTINGS ... As a chronic debilitating disease, AIDS is commonly associated with progressive loss of weight. For this reason, AIDS is also called 'slim disease' in Africa. The AIDS wasting syndrome ... Patients with gross wasting are easily recognizable for their cachectic appearance.
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She lies on her back perfectly helpless, and presenting literally the appearance of a skeleton. Every muscle in the body is wasted to a very unusual and remarkable extent. Those of the back share in the general atrophy, which, however, is perhaps most of all marked in the muscles of the hands and arms.
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Clinical features include severe growth failure, cachectic appearance, retinopathy, hypertension, renal failure, skin photosensitivity, and intellectual disability. Neonatal progeroid (Wiedemann-Rautenstrauch) syndrome is a recessively inherited syndrome of aging causing death by 2 yr.
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Diagnosis:—The cachectic appearance of the patient, the fetid breath and the salivation will at once locate the disease, almost before the mouth is examined. The appearance of the gums, soft and spongy; the peculiar pultacious exudate at the location of an ulcer;
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Man, æt. 30, cachectic appearance ; colic. Delicate woman of good family, married late ; intermittent. Man, æt. 34, had scabies all over, later rheumatism of l. arm, also had pneumonia ; heart disease. Man, æt. 34, formerly had itch ;
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