Criteria for Pre Cachexia | Medicalalgorithms.com

Evaluation

Are you evaluating a patient?

Yes

Does the patient have a chronic underlying disease?

Yes

Usual body weight

Unintentional weight loss during the past 6 months (enter 0 if there has been weight gain)

Does the patient have chronic or recurrent systemic inflammatory response (SIR) with elevated C-reactive protein?

Yes

Does the patient have anorexia or anorexia-related symptoms?

Yes

Results

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Results Interpretation and Description References Next Steps

Data complete?

Evaluation appropriate?

Unintentional weight loss during the past 6 months as percent of usual body weight

Number of reasons to suspect pre-cachexia in this patient

Does the patient meet the criteria for pre-cachexia?

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Interpretation and Description

References

Next Steps in Evaluation

Diagnosis

Risk Factors
- Risk Factors for Weight Loss in Patients with HIV Disease
Clinical Diagnosis, Including Family History For Genetics
Other Testing
- Decision Rule to Help Evaluate Patients With Involuntary Weight Loss
Criteria For Diagnosis
Severity, Prognosis, Stage
- Criteria for Grading Weight Loss Over a Period of Time
- Cancer Cachexia Prognostic Factors

Therapy

Options

Monitoring

Disease Progression
- Clinical Features of Diabetic Neuropathic Cachexia
- Consensus Development Panel Criteria for HIV-Associated Wasting

Specialty

Nutrition
Hematology Oncology

Objective

criteria for diagnosis

ICD-10

R64 - Cachexia

Criteria for Pre-Cachexia

Purpose: To screen a patient for pre-cachexia using the criteria of Muscaritoli et al.