Includes bibliographical references and index.

Principles of clinical nutrition: contrasting the practice of nutrit ion in health and disease / Marinos Elia -- Nutritional screening and a ssessment / Marinos Elia and Rebecca J. Stratton -- Water and electroly tes / Abeed H. Chowdhury and Dileep N. Lobo -- Overnutrition / Gema Fr èuhbeck -- Undernutrition / Anura V. Kurpad and Isabelle Aeberli -- Met abolic disorders / Luc Tappy and Jean-Marc Schwarz -- Eating disorders / Kate Williams -- Adverse reactions to foods / Simon H. Murch -- Nutri tional support / Esther van den Hogen, Marian AE van Bokhorst-de van de r Schueren and Cora F. Jonkers-Schuitema -- Ethics and nutrition / Clar e McNaught and John MacFie -- The gastrointestinal tract / Miquel A. Ga ssull and Eduard Cabrâe -- Nutrition in liver disease / Mathias Plauth and Tatjana Schèutz -- Nutrition and the pancreas / Jean-Fabien Zazzo, Paula McGurk and Marinos Elia -- The kidney / Roberta Situlin and Gianf ranco Guarnieri -- Nutritional and metabolic support in hematologic mal ignancies and hematopoietic stem cell transplantation / Maurizio Muscar itoli ... [et al.] -- The lung / Peter Collins and Marinos Elia -- Nutr ition and immune and inflammatory systems / Bruce R. Bistrian and Rober t F. Grimble -- The heart and blood vessels / Kate Gatenby, Stephen Whe atcroft and Mark Kearney -- Nutritional aspects of disease affecting th e skeleton / Christine Rodda -- Nutrition in surgery and trauma / Olle Ljungqvist and Ken Fearon -- Infectious diseases / Nicholas I. Paton, M iguel A. Gassull and Eduard Cabrâe -- Nutritional support in patients w ith cancer / Federico Bozzetti -- Paediatric nutrition / Anthony F. Wil liams -- Cystic fibrosis / John A. Dodge -- Illustrative cases / Simon P. Allison.