Related articles: Cachexia
Definition
State of profound general decay, characterized by prostration, slowing of psychic abilities, loss of appetite and reduction of fat and muscle mass (negative nitrogen balance).Possible Causes * of Cachexia
- AIDS
- Hemolytic Anemia
- Nervous anorexia
- Asbestosis
- Babesiosis
- Colon cancer
- Chikungunya
- Liver Cirrhosis
- cholangiocarcinoma
- Sclerosing cholangitis
- Colitis
- Ulcerative colitis
- chondrosarcoma
- cryptococcosis
- Vascular dementia
- Ebola
- Paroxysmal Nocturnal Hemoglobinuria
- Infective endocarditis
- Hepatitis C
- Hepatitis D
- Fulminant hepatitis
- Lassa fever
- Marburg hemorrhagic fever
- Hepatic fibrosis
- Leprosy
- Leishmaniasis
- Leptospirosis
- lymphoma
- Malaria
- Chagas disease
- Lyme disease
- Whipple's disease
- Pleural mesothelioma
- Multiple myeloma
- myxoma
- Cooley's disease
- Crohn's disease
- Diabetic Nephropathy
- Osteosarcoma
- Pemphigus vulgaris
- Schistosomiasis
- Heart failure
- Scurvy
- Sepsis
- Septic shock
- Pyloric stenosis
- thalassemia
- Typhus
- Subacute thyroiditis
- trichinosis
- African trypanosomiasis
- Colorectal cancer
- Cardiac tumors
- Smallpox
