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Energy Expenditure during Severe Acute Pancreatitis
Author(s) -
Bouffard Yves H.,
Delafosse Bertrand X.,
Annat Guy J.,
Viale Jean P.,
Bertrand Olivier M.,
Motin Jean P.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.935
H-Index - 98
eISSN - 1941-2444
pISSN - 0148-6071
DOI - 10.1177/014860718901300126
Subject(s) - acute pancreatitis , medicine , intensive care medicine , energy expenditure , pancreatitis , emergency medicine
Energy expenditure (EE) was measured, during 3 consecutive days, in six patients suffering from acute pancreatitis. Measurements were achieved postoperatively, under mechanical ventilation, using a mass spectrometer system. EE represented 1.49 times (range: 1.08–1.78) the predicted resting energy expenditure (PREE) according to the reevaluated Harris‐Benedict equation. There was a weak positive correlation between EE and core temperature and a negative correlation between EE and nitrogen balance. EE/PREE was not different between septic and nonseptic patients (1.58 ± 0.06 vs. 1.39 ± 0.07). The calculations of nutrient oxidation rate indicated a high protein catabolic rate, a neoglucogenesis, and a lipolysis. (Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition 13:26–29, 1989)