Open AccessTotal Parenteral Nutrition With Glutamine Dipeptide After Major Abdominal Surgery
Author(s) -
Bart Morlion,
Peter Stehle,
P. Wächtler,
H.P. Siedhoff,
Manfred Köller,
Wolfgang König,
Peter Fürst,
Christoph Puchstein
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
annals of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 4.153
H-Index - 309
eISSN - 1528-1140
pISSN - 0003-4932
DOI - 10.1097/00000658-199802000-00022
Subject(s) - medicine , parenteral nutrition , glutamine , dipeptide , abdominal surgery , surgery , amino acid , biochemistry , chemistry
To assess the efficacy of glutamine (Gln) dipeptide-enriched total parenteral nutrition (TPN) on selected metabolic, immunologic, and clinical variables in surgical patients.