Suprarenal cachexia

**Cachexia** is a process in which a person loses weight as a result of excess protein breakdown in the body. Cachexia affects people who have no appetite and are underweight. Cachexia can also be caused by other causes, such as diseases of the stomach, intestines, endocrine system, as well as injuries or infections of the central nervous system.

One type of cachexia is **suprarenic cachexia** - weight loss due to muscle wasting and a decrease in the volume of adipose tissue. It can be caused by hormonal disorders such as hypothyroidism, adrenal insufficiency, diabetes and other diseases. At the same time, dystrophy of organs and systems develops. And if left untreated, it can lead to death.

Suprarenal cachexia (from Latin caecus - blind, Greek ἐπι- - over- and -ρήνωσ(μ)α, from ῥήνος - kidney) is an outdated term meaning general exhaustion and progressive loss of body weight in the absence of gross metabolic disorders (severe catabolism) and long-term severe diseases. This condition is an extremely unfavorable sign that threatens the lives of patients, requires qualified medical care and is often associated with severe progressive kidney diseases (for example, tumors or other organic pathologies). Cachexia is considered a terminal, but necessarily reversible disease.

In modern medicine, such a concept as “suprarenal cachexia” is not used in clinical practice, since it is customary to treat these cases more narrowly,