Further concerns about glutamine: A case report on hyperammonemic encephalopathy

Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2015, Pages e458-e460

  Cioccari, Luca ^a   Gautschi, Matthias ^b   Etter, Reto ^a   Weck, Anja ^a   Takala, Jukka ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Ammonia; Encephalopathy; Glutamine

Indexed keywords

AMMONIA; BENZOIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; SCAVENGER;

ADULT; AMINO ACID BLOOD LEVEL; ANALYSIS; ANASTOMOSIS LEAKAGE; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BLOOD LEVEL; BRAIN DISEASE; CASE REPORT; CATABOLISM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CRITICALLY ILL PATIENT; FEMALE; GASTRINOMA; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS RESECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN INTAKE; UREA CYCLE DISORDER; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; HYPERAMMONEMIA; METABOLIC ENCEPHALOPATHY;

BRAIN DISEASES, METABOLIC; DIETARY SUPPLEMENTS; FEMALE; GLUTAMINE; HUMANS; HYPERAMMONEMIA; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84941909704     PISSN: 00903493     EISSN: 15300293     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/CCM.0000000000001151     Document Type: Article

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