Beneficial effects of supplementation with branched-chain amino acids on postoperative bacteremia in living donor liver transplant recipients

Liver Transplantation

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1073-1080

  Shirabe, Ken ^a   Yoshimatsu, Masanori ^a   Motomura, Takashi ^a   Takeishi, Kazuki ^a   Toshima, Takeo ^a   Muto, Jun ^a   Matono, Rumi ^a   Taketomi, Akinobu ^a   Uchiyama, Hideaki ^a   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOLEBAN EN; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; CYCLOSPORIN A; LIVACT BCAA; TACROLIMUS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BACTEREMIA; CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG DOSAGE FORM COMPARISON; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HUMAN; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE TREATMENT; INCIDENCE; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONOR; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREOPERATIVE TREATMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; RISK REDUCTION; SCORING SYSTEM;

ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; AGED; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BACTEREMIA; BIOPSY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE, ACUTE; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; LIVING DONORS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80051965782     PISSN: 15276465     EISSN: 15276473     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/lt.22324     Document Type: Article

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