Ruiz Coracho P, Bellón Caneiro J M, García Parreño J, Pérez Fraguero R, Garcia González F
Servicio de Cirugía General y Digestiva, Hospital General Universitario. Guadalajara. (Facultad de Medicina. Universidad de Alcalá de Henares.).
Nutr Hosp. 1991 May-Jun;6(3):178-85.
One of the generic indications of parenteral peripheral malnutrition is the immediate postoperative period following surgery of the digestive tract. In the series presented, fifty patients with digestive neoplasia of different locations were studied, with slight or moderate malnutrition upon admittance. After the operation, feeding was done using hypocaloric parenteral solutions for the first seven days of the postop. period. In the qualitative intake of nitrogen in this type of nutrition, branched chain amino acids are important due to their beneficial effects on metabolism, and for this reason two complete hypocaloric solutions containing 45% and 15.5% of these amino acids were administered to each respective group under study. To justify the effect of improving the proteic synthesis attributed to these amino acids, the levels of rapid turnover proteins, transferrin, prealbumin and retinol-binding protein were determined.
