[Evaluation and nutritional therapy in cirrhotic patients of the "Edgardo Rebagliati Martins" hospital].

A nutritional evaluation was carried out in 43 cirrhotic outpatients who came to the Digestive Disease Department of the Edgardo Rebagliati Martins Hospital for a checkup. The evaluation included a dietary composition analysis; nutritional status through the analysis of lean and fatty mass through anthropometric parameters (tricipital skin fold thickness, midarm muscle circumference, muscle arm circumference and creatinine excretion in the 24 h urine/height ratio), measuring of visceral proteins (albumin, transferrin) and bioelectric Impedance. Finally, a nutritional dietary intervention was made according to international standards for cirrhotic patients.