Federal University of Sao Paulo
Hypoalbuminemia is common among children at high surgical risk for heart disease
Published in Mental Health Business Week, July 23rd, 2005
According to scientists writing in the journal Nutrition, "We evaluated the behavior of serum albumin concentrations in response to metabolic stress that is associated with cardiac surgery and the role of this protein as a predictor of clinical outcome in children at high surgical risk who undergo operative correction of congenital heart defects."
H.P. Leite and colleagues of the Federal University of Sao Paulo explained, "Serum albumin concentrations were measured in 30 children who had heart disease and were at high surgical risk. Analyses were...
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