Accute malnutrition and visceral failure.
A prospective study was carried out in order to determinethe existence or not of a connection between aculemalnutrition and visceral failure in multi-aggressedpatients, Starting out with two comparable groups,group A, suffering from more aggressions, showed aconsisten! loss of nitrogen which was gre...
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| Language: | Spanish |
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1988
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| Online Access: | https://revista.scu.org.uy/index.php/cir_urug/article/view/3830 |
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| Summary: | A prospective study was carried out in order to determinethe existence or not of a connection between aculemalnutrition and visceral failure in multi-aggressedpatients, Starting out with two comparable groups,group A, suffering from more aggressions, showed aconsisten! loss of nitrogen which was greater !han theintake, (nitrogen balance becoming positiva only in43% of the cases. Visceral failure was statisticallygreater in this group; it was also directly related tonitrogen loss, and this showed, as a conclusion, thatthe aforementioned connection exists. |
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