Thiamine in nutrition therapy

Nutrition in Clinical Practice

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-50

  Sriram, Krishnan ^a   Manzanares, William ^b   Joseph, Kimberly ^a  

^a Jr Hospital of Cook County   (United States)

^b UNIVERSIDAD DE LA REPÚBLICA   (Uruguay)

Author keywords

beriberi; congestive heart failure; critical illness; enteral nutrition; metabolic acidosis; micronutrients; parenteral nutrition; refeeding syndrome; thiamine; vitamin B1

Indexed keywords

ACETYL COENZYME A; COCARBOXYLASE; DIURETIC AGENT; FUROSEMIDE; MULTIVITAMIN; PYRUVIC ACID; THIAMINE; THIAMINE PYROPHOSPHOKINASE; TRACE ELEMENT; TRANSKETOLASE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL WITHDRAWAL; ALCOHOLISM; ANAPHYLAXIS; ATAXIA; BARIATRIC SURGERY; BERIBERI; CHEILOSIS; CHOREA; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMA; CONFABULATION; CONFUSION; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DELIRIUM; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIET THERAPY; DISORIENTATION; DYSPHAGIA; GLOSSITIS; HEARING LOSS; HEMODIALYSIS; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HYPEREMESIS GRAVIDARUM; HYPERTHYROIDISM; INJURY; INTESTINE SOUND; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LACTATION; LETHARGY; MACRONUTRIENT; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL HEALTH; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MUSCLE HYPERTONIA; MYOCLONUS; NAUSEA; NONHUMAN; NYSTAGMUS; OBESITY; OPHTHALMOPLEGIA; OPTIC NERVE DISEASE; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PERIPHERAL NEUROPATHY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOSIS; QUADRIPLEGIA; REFEEDING SYNDROME; RENAL REPLACEMENT THERAPY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEIZURE; STOMACH ABSORPTION; TINNITUS; VITAMIN BLOOD LEVEL; VITAMIN SUPPLEMENTATION; WERNICKE ENCEPHALOPATHY; WERNICKE KORSAKOFF SYNDROME;

ALCOHOLISM; HUMANS; NUTRITION THERAPY; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; THIAMINE; THIAMINE DEFICIENCY; VITAMIN B COMPLEX;

EID: 84856731446     PISSN: 08845336     EISSN: 19412452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0884533611426149     Document Type: Review

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