Poor nutrition is common in patients with liver failure or cirrhosis and it can lead to muscle wasting weakness fatigue and worse outcomes before and after the patients undergo liver transplantation.The recent study addresses aspects of nutrition in transplant candidates with cirrhosis and emphasises the need to screen all patients to identify those with poor nutritional status especially those suffering from muscle wasting. Senior author Aldo J Montano-Loza from the University of Alberta in Edmonton Canada said that muscle wasting is frequently overlooked in liver transplant candidates as nutritional assessment is not routinely carried out as part of clinical practice
