Does enteral glutamine supplementation decrease infectious morbidity?

Surgical Infections

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 29-35

  Schulman, Alison Saalwachter ^a   Willcutts, Kate F ^a   Claridge, Jeffrey A ^b   O'Donnell, Kelly B ^a   Radigan, Amy E ^a   Evans, Heather L ^a   McElearney, Shannon T ^a   Hedrick, Traci L ^a   Lowson, Stuart M ^a   Schirmer, Bruce D ^a   Young, Jeffrey S ^a   Sawyer, Robert G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CRUCIAL; GLUTAMINE; PROMOD; REPLETE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CARBOHYDRATE DIET; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITICAL ILLNESS; ENTERIC FEEDING; FAT INTAKE; FEMALE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LUNG INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PROTEIN DIET; SEPSIS; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRAUMATOLOGY; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; CROSS INFECTION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ENTERAL NUTRITION; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; SURGICAL PROCEDURES, OPERATIVE;

EID: 33645567963     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2006.7.29     Document Type: Article

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