American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 39, 860-862, Copyright © 1984 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Relationship between serum phosphate and parenteral nutrition-- associated increase in serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase

AA Nanji and FH Anderson

Transient increases in SGOT are seen in patients receiving parenteral nutrition. We found the magnitude of the increase in SGOT to correlate significantly (r = 0.69, p less than 0.001) and inversely with the serum phosphate level measured at the same time as when the SGOT level was at its peak. Although the presence of the correlation does not implicate an etiological role for hypophosphatemia in the pathogenesis of hepatocellular injury, hypophosphatemia could possibly worsen the degree of fatty infiltration which is responsible for this increase in SGOT.

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