Aura Dulcinea Herrera-Martínez, María R Alhambra Expósito, Gregorio Manzano García, María J Molina Puertas, Alfonso Calañas Continente, Rodrigo Bahamondez Opazo, Concepción Muñoz Jiménez, Rafael Rojas Contreras, María A Gálvez Moreno
UNLABELLED: Glutamine is an essential amino acid for nucleotide synthesis and an important energy resource for cellular division. There is contradictory evidence about its benefits as part of parenteral nutrition. More than 75% of bone marrow transplant patients (BMTP) have, during their evolution, digestive tract complications limiting enteral nutrition, for this reason, sometimes total parenteral nutrition (TPN) is required. OBJECTIVE: Our aim was to analyze the relation between the use of glutamine in TPN of BMTP, and the evolution of clinical acute complications as mucositis, graft versus host disease (GVHD) and infections days of stay and days of TPN...
April 1, 2015: Nutrición Hospitalaria: Organo Oficial de la Sociedad Española de Nutrición Parenteral y Enteral