Nutrition support and infections associated with hepatic resection and liver transplantation in patients with chronic liver disease

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 318-326

  Masuda, Toshiro ^a,b   Shirabe, Ken ^a   Yoshiya, Shohei ^a   Matono, Rumi ^a   Morita, Kazutoyo ^a   Hashimoto, Naotaka ^a   Ikegami, Toru ^a   Yoshizumi, Tomoharu ^a   Baba, Hideo ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KUMAMOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

bacteremia; branched chain amino acids; hepatic resection; infection; liver cirrhosis; liver surgery; liver transplantation; nutrition; synbiotics

Indexed keywords

AROMATIC AMINO ACID; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERLEUKIN DERIVATIVE; ISOLEUCINE; LEUCINE; PREALBUMIN; PREBIOTIC AGENT; PROBIOTIC AGENT; RETINOID BINDING PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; SYNBIOTIC AGENT; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; VALINE;

ANTHROPOMETRY; ASCITES; BACTEREMIA; BACTERIAL PERITONITIS; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; COLITIS; DIET THERAPY; EDEMA; ENDOCARDITIS; ENTERIC FEEDING; GLYCOGEN SYNTHESIS; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LIVER ABSCESS; LIVER FUNCTION; LIVER REGENERATION; LIVER RESECTION; LIVER SURGERY; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALNUTRITION; MENINGITIS; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN SYNTHESIS; RESPIRATORY QUOTIENT; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SEPSIS; SUPPLEMENTATION; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WEIGHT;

AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; BACTEREMIA; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MALNUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PREBIOTICS; PROBIOTICS; SYNBIOTICS;

EID: 84876714418     PISSN: 01486071     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0148607112456041     Document Type: Review

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