Successful treatment of an infected wound in infants by a combination of negative pressure wound therapy and arginine supplementation

Nutrition

Volumn 27, Issue 11-12, 2011, Pages 1141-1145

  Masumoto, Kouji ^a,b   Nagata, Kouji ^a   Oka, Yoichiro ^b   Kai, Hiroki ^b   Yamaguchi, Sadako ^c   Wada, Mika ^c   Kusuda, Tsuyoshi ^c   Hara, Toshiro ^c   Hirose, Shin ichi ^b   Iwasaki, Akinori ^b   Taguchi, Tomoaki ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Arginine; Children; Negative pressure wound therapy; Surgical site infection; Wound dehiscence

Indexed keywords

ARGININE;

ANORECTAL SURGERY; ARTICLE; CANCER SURGERY; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GASTROSTOMY; HUMAN; INFANT; LARYNGOTRACHEAL SEPARATION; MALE; NEWBORN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTUM SURGERY; SPINA BIFIDA; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRACHEA SURGERY; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DEHISCENCE; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

ARGININE; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; PRESSURE ULCER; SURGICAL WOUND DEHISCENCE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 80053437600     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: 18731244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nut.2011.01.006     Document Type: Article

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