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American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, Vol 46, 1040-1047, Copyright © 1987 by The American Society for Clinical Nutrition, Inc

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Parenteral nutrition in septic patients: effect of increasing nitrogen intake

PD Greig, DH Elwyn, J Askanazi and JM Kinney
Department of Surgery, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Metabolic effects of increasing nitrogen intake during total parenteral nutrition (TPN) were studied in nine septic patients. The patients were given 5% dextrose (D5W) for 1 d. For the next 6 d they received total parenteral nutrition (TPN), at 1.35 times resting energy expenditure (REE), containing either 191 or 366 mg N/(kg.d) Non-protein calories were divided equally between glucose and lipid emulsion. Three patients were studied on both diets (n = 6 for each diet). On the high- but not the low-N diet were significant increases in protein oxidation, blood urea N, O2 consumption, and CO2 production. TPN normalized most plasma amino acid levels but intramuscular amino acids remained unchanged. Transient positive N balance occurred during days 1-3 on the high- but not the low-N intake; on days 5-6 N balance did not differ significantly from zero on either diet and the improvement (165 mg N/[kg.d]) was the same for both diets.


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