A Survey of Automatic Methods for Nutritional Assessment [PDF]
Nutritional assessment is key in order to make decisions about the nature and cause of nutrition related health issues that affect an individual. The systematic process of collecting and interpreting relevant nutrition information, however, is still in its technological infancy. Despite technological advances in storage and analysis of nutritional data,
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Effectiveness of artificial nutrition in patients with acute pancreatitis [PDF]
Introduction: Early application of enteral nutrition programme has begun to gain ground in recent years in the treatment of severe acute pancreatitis by putting into question the effectiveness of parenteral nutrition.Aim: The purpose of the present ...
Kotanidou, Anastasia+3 more
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Introduction: the supplementation of alanyl-glutamine dipeptide in critically ill patients necessitating total parenteral nutrition (TPN) improves clinical outcomes, reducing mortality, infection rate, and shortening ICU hospital lengths of stay (LOS ...
Maurizio Muscaritoli+4 more
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Differences in proteolytic activity and gene profiles of fungal strains isolated from the total parenteral nutrition patients [PDF]
Fungal infections constitute a serious clinical problem in the group of patients receiving total parenteral nutrition. The majority of species isolated from infections of the total parenteral nutrition patients belong to Candida genus. The most important
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Purpose. To retrospectively study the effect of fish oil-based lipid emulsion and soybean oil-based lipid emulsion on cholestasis associated with long-term parenteral nutrition in premature infants. Methods.
Leilei Wang+4 more
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Total parenteral nutrition and carnitine supplementation practices in preterm neonates - results of a national survey [PDF]
Thesis (M.A.)--Boston UniversityBackground: The goal of postnatal total parenteral nutrition (TPN) in premature neonates (PT) is to mimic the intrauterine environment of the fetus. Micronutrients are essential for optimal development.
Khalid, Sabeen
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Enteral nutrition with medium-chain triglyceride compared to total parenteral nutrition in patient with chylothorax: an evidence based case report [PDF]
Introduction: Chylothorax is associated with longer length of stay, higher morbidity, mortality, and hospitalization cost. The main principle of chylothorax therapy is to reduce the chylous flow.
Tedjaatmadja, Chintya+1 more
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Epidemiologia molecular de um surto de bacteriemia por Enterobacter cloacae e Enterobacter agglomerans ocorrido na região de Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil [PDF]
A total of 73 isolates (57 Enterobacter cloacae and 16 Enterobacter agglomerans), recovered during an outbreak of bacteremia in the Campinas area, São Paulo, Brazil, were studied.
CESAR, Paulo C.+10 more
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Nutritional support for head-injured patients [PDF]
Copyright John Wiley & Sons. This review is published as a Cochrane Review in the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews 2004, Issue 3. Cochrane Reviews are regularly updated as new evidence emerges and in response to comments and criticisms, and ...
Bunn, Frances+5 more
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Chylous ascites as a complication of nephroureterectomy
Chylous ascites may be the result of many pathological conditions, including congenital defects of the lymphatic system, nonspecific bacterial, parasitic and tuberculous peritoneal infection, liver cirrhosis, malignant neoplasm, blunt abdominal trauma ...
Chi-Hang Hsiao+6 more
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