failure to thrive

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Introduction

In pediatrics:

  • infant's weight gain & growth far below expected for age

In geriatrics:

  • an unexplained decrease in function, structure or metabolic process in excess of the expected for an age-matched cohort

Etiology

Clinical manifestations

Laboratory

Differential diagnosis

Management

More general terms

References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed. Lippincot, Williams & Wilkins
  2. Verdery RB, Clinics in Geriatric Medicine 11(4):653 1995