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Acute Pancreatitis

Research from Erciyes University in the area of acute pancreatitis published

Published in Hospital and Nursing Home Week, February 7th, 2008

"This study was performed to determine the effects of glutamine enriched total parenteral nutrition (TPN) on the patients with acute pancreatitis (AP). Forty patients with AP, who had Ranson's score between 2 and 4 received either standard TPN (control group) or TPN with glutamine (treatment group)," researchers in Kayseri, Turkey report.

"The patients in the treatment group received TPN containing 0.3 g/kg/days glutamine. At the end of the study, patients were evaluated for nutritional and inflammatory parameters, length of TPN and length of hospital stay. The length of TPN applications were 10.5 +/- 3.6 days and 11.6 +/- 2.5 days, and the length of hospital stays were...

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