Can failure to thrive in adults be reversed? Failure to thrive in children and young adults can be reversed if the root cause is treated. Failure to thrive in elderly patients is harder to reverse but not impossible if the patient isn't near the end stages of life. Since FTT is a multi...
Failure to thrive in elderly adults : ManagementAgarwal, KathrynEditor, SectionEditor, Deputy
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The term "failure to thrive" is frequently used to describe older adults whose independence is declining. The term was exported from pediatrics in the 1970s and is used to describe older adults with various concurrent chronic diseases, functional impairments, or both. Despite this heterogeneity, fa...
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The analogy between the "failure-to-thrive" syndrome of childhood and a symptom complex seen in adult neurology is described. Adults presenting with a variety of central nervous system diseases occasionally seem to follow an unusual stereotyped course resulting in intractable weight loss, wide variatio...
Many young working age adults in developed countries are failing to thrive in economic, demographic and social terms. Their failure to thrive is a relatively new phenomenon that has not been widely recognized, but it affects young adults in virtually all the more developed countries for which we...
factors that affect growth. In the influential textbook of the late 19th century, Emmett Holt described an infant who “ceased to thrive” in 1897. The termfailure to thrivemay not have been used in print until 1933.2Growthorweight falteringis preferred by some to avoid the pejorative “...
Editor—We would like to thank Keeley1 for his comments regarding our prospective randomised controlled trial that examined the effect of the ‘transnasal humidified rapid insufflation ventilatory exchange’ (THRIVE) technique on apnoea time and ventilatory effect in children.2 Studies of apnoeic oxygenat...
Fifteen infants and children with a diagnosis of failure to thrive (FTT) were followed at one to three years postdischarge. Data were gathered from in-home interviews, psychosocial questionnaires, measurement of present height and weight, and administration of the Developmental Profile. Nine of the...