Parenteral Glutamine Supplementation Does Not Reduce the Risk of Mortality or Late-Onset Sepsis in Extremely Low Birth Weight Infants

Pediatrics

Volumn 113, Issue 5 I, 2004, Pages 1209-1215

  Poindexter, Brenda B ^a,r   Ehrenkranz, Richard A ^b   Stoll, Barbara J ^c   Wright, Linda L ^d   Poole, W Kenneth ^e   Oh, William ^f   Bauer, Charles R ^g   Papile, Lu Ann ^h   Tyson, Jon E ⁱ   Carlo, Waldemar A ^j   Laptook, Abbot R ^k   Narendran, Vivek ^l   Stevenson, David K ^m   Fanaroff, Avroy A ⁿ   Korones, Sheldon B ^o   Shankaran, Seetha ^p   Finer, Neil N ^q   Lemons, James A ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EUNICE KENNEDY SHRIVER NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF CHILD HEALTH AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT   (United States)

^e RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^f BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^j University of Alabama at Birmingham   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS SOUTHWESTERN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^m STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

ⁿ CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^o UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^p WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^q UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^r RILEY HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

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Author keywords

Extremely low birth weight infants; Glutamine; Parenteral nutrition; Randomized clinical trial

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMINE;

ARTICLE; CHILD GROWTH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DOUBLE BLIND PROCEDURE; ENTERIC FEEDING; HUMAN; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT NUTRITION; INFECTION RISK; MULTICENTER STUDY; NECROTIZING ENTEROCOLITIS; NEWBORN; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SEPSIS; VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT;

DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; DOUBLE-BLIND METHOD; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MALE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; SEPSIS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 2342512870     PISSN: 00314005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1542/peds.113.5.1209     Document Type: Article

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