Wasting syndrome

Classification according to ICD-10
B22	Other specified diseases resulting from HIV disease
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

The classic wasting syndrome is an unwanted weight loss of at least 10% of the original body weight , which occurs with persistent diarrhea and / or fever and is not caused by an infection . The wasting syndrome is part of the so-called AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome).

In most cases, a diagnosis of wasting syndrome has to be revised on closer examination, since a specific pathogen that causes the symptoms can be found.

etiology

In true wasting syndrome, in which cachexia (if tumor-induced, then tumor cachexia ) and weight loss due to so-called opportunistic infections are excluded, the causes are usually malabsorption , malnutrition and hypogonadism .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Steven Grinspoon et al .: Effects of Androgen Administration in Men with the AIDS Wasting Syndrome . In: Annals of Internal Medicine . tape 129 , no. 1 , July 1, 1998, pp. 18-26 , doi : 10.7326 / 0003-4819-129-1-199807010-00005 .

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