Improvement in the nutritional status and clinical conditions of patients with liver failure using a liver diet combined with a branched chain amino acids-enriched elemental diet

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 61, Issue 133, 2014, Pages 1308-1312

  Matsuoka, Shunichi ^a   Tamura, Akinori ^a   Nakagawara, Hirosi ^a   Moriyama, Mitsuhiko ^a  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Branched chain amino acids (BCAA) enriched elemental diet; Hypoalbuminemia; Liver failure

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BRANCHED CHAIN AMINO ACID; GLUCOSE; PLASMA PROTEIN; SERUM ALBUMIN; PROTEIN INTAKE;

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ADULT; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; AMMONIA BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; CALORIC RESTRICTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; ELEMENTAL DIET; FEMALE; GLUCOSE METABOLISM; HEPATIC ENCEPHALOPATHY; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER DIET; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; TREATMENT DURATION; UREA NITROGEN BLOOD LEVEL; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; CLINICAL TRIAL; DIET THERAPY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AMINO ACIDS, BRANCHED-CHAIN; DIETARY PROTEINS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84906990870     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5754/hge14319     Document Type: Article

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