Nutritional support for chronic liver disease patients

Nutritional support is one of the most important non-drug therapies for patients with chronic liver disease. In the lecture the authors consider the signifi cance of this way of therapy, methods for detecting nutritional disorders in patients with chronic liver diseases, and diet therapy issues as well. Recent studies have shown that nutritional support for chronic liver diseases is a rapidly growing fi eld of medicine and an object of increasing clinical interest. It should be recognized that studies in the fi eld of nutritional support for chronic liver diseases are based on generally accepted recommendations for patients with another diseases. Therefore, many questions remain unanswered and demands on new investigations.