You are reading a case study from a researcher at World University.The researcher has traveled to the largest city in India and is reporting on an illness present in a 15-month-old boy.The researcher described the child as extremely thin and bony,with wrinkled skin and enlarged fatty liver.For the past year,this child has subsisted almost entirely on diluted cereal drink.Your first thought is that all of these observations are characteristic of marasmus except for the

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Enlarged fatty liver is characteristic of kwashiorkor, not marasmus. Marasmus is associated with severe wasting and thin appearance due to calorie deficiency, but not with liver enlargement.

You Are Reading a Case Study from a Researcher at World