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Total parenteral nutrition-induced Wernicke’s encephalopathy after oncologic gastrointestinal surgery

Open Medicine, 2020
Carl Wernicke described the disease bearing his name in 1881 and reported three cases characterized by the presence of mental confusion, ataxia, and ophthalmoplegia.
Fedeli Piergiorgio, Justin Davies Richard, Cirocchi Roberto, Popivanov Georgi, Bruzzone Paolo, Giustozzi Michela   +5 more
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A case report of a challenging diagnosis of biliary atresia in a patient receiving total parenteral nutrition

BMC Pediatrics, 2019
Background Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) and biliary atresia (BA) are common causes of cholestasis in infancy. The diagnosis of BA is time sensitive due to an inverse correlation between age at intervention (hepatic portoenterostomy - HPE) and ...
Atu Agawu, Andrew Wehrman, Jennifer Pogoriler, Natalie A. Terry, Henry C. Lin   +4 more
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Complications of total parenteral nutrition

Kidney International, 1985
Continued technological improvements in the quality of nutritional formulations and techniques for parenteral administration have resulted in a major improvement in patient care. The ability to provide all necessary nutrients by intravenous infusion, so-called total parenteral nutrition (TPN), has sustained life and growth in patients who otherwise ...
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The Nitric Oxide Synthase Inhibitor NG-Nitro-L-Arginine Methyl Ester Diminishes the Immunomodulatory Effects of Parental Arginine in Rats with Subacute Peritonitis. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
The combined treatment of parenteral arginine and the nitric oxide synthase inhibitor NG-nitro-L-arginine methyl ester (L-NAME) have been shown to improve liver function and systemic inflammation in subacute peritonitic rats.
Hui-Chen Lo, Ching-Yi Hung, Fu-Huan Huang, Tzu-Cheng Su, Chien-Hsing Lee   +4 more
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Manganese Neurotoxicity as a Complication of Chronic Total Parenteral Nutrition

Case Reports in Neurological Medicine, 2020
Manganese accumulation in the central nervous system creates clinical symptoms of cognitive dysfunction, behavioral changes, and movement disorders resembling Parkinson’s disease.
Alisha Khan, Jonathan Hingre, Amit S. Dhamoon   +2 more
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Controversies in the Mechanism of Total Parenteral Nutrition Induced Pathology

Children, 2015
Over 30,000 patients are permanently dependent on Total Parenteral Nutrition (TPN) for survival with several folds higher requiring TPN for a prolonged duration. Unfortunately, it can cause potentially fatal complications.
Jain Ajay Kumar, Jeffery H. Teckman
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The retrospective research of enteral nutrition with medium-chain triglyceride and total parenteral nutrition support of postoperative chylothorax in adults

SAGE Open Medicine, 2020
Background: Chylothorax is caused by thoracic lymphatic system injuries that leads to the lymph extravasating into the thoracic cavity. There are few reports comparing the therapeutic effects of enteral nutrition with medium-chain triglyceride and total ...
Jie Zheng, Ying-Yi Chen, Chun-Ying Zhang, Wen-Qian Zhang, Zhi-Yong Rao   +4 more
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Clinical impact of lipid injectable emulsion in internal medicine inpatients exclusively receiving parenteral nutrition: a propensity score matching analysis from a Japanese medical claims database

BMC Medicine, 2022
Background Although guidelines recommend lipid injectable emulsions (ILEs) be used as a part of parenteral nutrition, many patients in Japan receive lipid-free parenteral nutrition.
Kosei Takagi, Kenta Murotani, Satoru Kamoshita, Akiyoshi Kuroda   +3 more
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Effects of total parenteral nutrition on drug metabolism gene expression in mice

Acta Pharmaceutica Sinica B, 2020
Parenteral nutrition-associated liver disease (PNALD) is a liver dysfunction caused by various risk factors presented in patients receiving total parenteral nutrition (TPN).
Christina Ferrucci-Da Silva, Le Zhan, Jianliang Shen, Bo Kong, Michael J. Campbell, Naureen Memon, Thomas Hegyi, Lucy Lu, Grace L. Guo   +8 more
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Dataset on transcriptomic profiling of parenteral nutrition-induced hepatotoxicity in a human liver in vitro model

Data in Brief
The provided dataset describes the transcriptomic profile of human liver spheroid co-cultures consisting of a human hepatoma cell line (C3A/HepG2 cells) and an immortalized activated human hepatic stellate cell line (LX-2 cells) upon exposure to total ...
Milos Mihajlovic, Mathieu Vinken
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