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Article: Effects of glutamine in critical illness.(Abstracts: Recently Published Abstracts)(Brief Article)
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- Alternative Medicine Review
- Article date:
- September 1, 2005
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Effects of glutamine in critical illness. Cander B, Kalkan E, Kaymakci A, et al. Saudi Med J 2005;26:969-973.
OBJECTIVE: Under normal physiological conditions, glutamine is synthesized in large amounts by the human body and is considered nonessential. It has been hypothesized that glutamine may become a conditionally essential amino acid in patients with catabolic disease. The objective of this study is to investigate the prognostic effect of glutamine. METHODS: For this study, we selected 48 patients from the intensive care unit. Group I consisted of 33 patients whose treatment included glutamine. We placed the remaining 15 patients in group II, and they did not ...