OHP-071 Study of Glutamine Use in Adult Parenteral Nutrition

A.S.P.E.N. position paper: parenteral nutrition glutamine supplementation.

Glutamine-Supplemented Parenteral Nutrition and Probiotics in Four Adult Autoimmune Enteropathy Patients

To evaluate the effects of glutamine-supplemented parenteral nutrition (PN) and probiotics in adult autoimmune enteropathy (AIE) patients. Four adult AIE patients were identified from April 2006 to January 2012. Clinical and nutritional data were obtained from the patients' medical records. Glutamine-supplemented PN started immediately when the AIE diagnosis was confirmed. The total PN duration...

Glutamine: An Obligatory Parenteral Nutrition Substrate in Critical Care Therapy

Critical illness is characterized by glutamine depletion owing to increased metabolic demand. Glutamine is essential to maintain intestinal integrity and function, sustain immunologic response, and maintain antioxidative balance. Insufficient endogenous availability of glutamine may impair outcome in critically ill patients. Consequently, glutamine has been considered to be a conditionally esse...

Parenteral nutrition in adult intensive care.

A healthy person deprived of food will starve to death in approximately 2 months; severe trauma or major surgery reduce that time to about one month. A loss of more than about 12% of total body nitrogen or ofmore than 33% ofbody weight is generally fatal. Lesser degrees of protein/calorie malnutrition, via respiratory muscle weakness, reduced hypoxic drive and decreased tissue oxygenation, cont...

ESPEN Guidelines on Parenteral Nutrition: home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in adult patients.

Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) was introduced as a treatment modality in the early 1970s primarily for the treatment of chronic intestinal failure in patients with benign disease. The relatively low morbidity and mortality associated with HPN has encouraged its widespread use in western countries. Thus there is huge clinical experience, but there are still few controlled clinical studies of tr...