Nutritional considerations for the dialytic patient.

Abstract	Nutritional therapy has a key role in the conservative management of renal disease. This role is even more vital with the advent of advanced renal replacement therapies to support patients with life threatening severe oliguric or anuric acute uremia or the International Renal Interest Society stage IV chronic kidney disease. Nutritional assessment and institution of nutritional support is crucial because dialysis only partially alleviates uremic anorexia. Dialytic patients have a higher risk of protein calorie, iron, zinc, vitamin B6, vitamin C, folic acid, 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, and carnitine malnutritions.
Authors	Denise A Elliott
Journal	The Veterinary clinics of North America. Small animal practice (Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract) Vol. 41 Issue 1 Pg. 239-50 (Jan 2011) ISSN: 1878-1306 [Electronic] United States
PMID	21251520 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Review)
Copyright	Copyright Â© 2011 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
Topics	Animals Cat Diseases (therapy) Cats Dog Diseases (therapy) Dogs Kidney Diseases (complications, therapy, veterinary) Malnutrition (prevention & control, therapy, veterinary) Nutrition Therapy (veterinary) Nutritional Requirements Nutritional Status Renal Dialysis (adverse effects, veterinary)

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