Parenteral administration of different amounts of branch-chain amino acids in septic patients: Clinical and metabolic aspects

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 418-424

  García de Lorenzo, Abelardo ^a,h   Ortiz Leyba, Carlos ^b   Planas, Mercé ^c   Montejo, Juan C ^d   Núñez, Rafael ^e   Ordóñez, Francisco J ^f   Aragón, César ^g   Jiménez, Francisco J ^b  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DEL ROCÍO   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO 12 DE OCTUBRE   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO VIRGEN DE LA ARRIXACA   (Spain)

^f HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO MARQUÉS DE VALDECILLA   (Spain)

^g H Carlos Haya   (Spain)

^h C/ Nuria 28 2oA   (Spain)

Author keywords

arginine; branch chain amino acids; glutamine; mortality; parenteral nutrition; prealbumin; retinol binding protein; sepsis

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; ARGININE; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; FREAMINE; INTRALIPID; LEUCINE; NITROGEN; PREALBUMIN; RETINOL BINDING PROTEIN; VALINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NITROGEN BALANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN METABOLISM; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION;

EID: 0030902286     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00003246-199703000-00008     Document Type: Article

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