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| Effect of low versus high intravenous amino acid intake on very low birth weight infants in the early neonatal period |
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| Author(s): Thureen PJ, Melara D, Fennessey PV, Hay WW |
| Source: PEDIATRIC RESEARCH Volume: 53 Issue: 1 Pages: 24-32 Published: JAN 2003 |
| Times Cited: 68 References: 51 |
| Abstract: Greater protein intakes are required than have been commonly used to achieve fetal in utero protein accretion rates in preterm neonates. To study the efficacy and safety of more aggressive amino acid intake, we performed a prospective randomized study in 28 infants [mean wt, 946 +/- 40 g (SEM)] of 1 (low amino acid intake, LAA) versus 3 g.kg(-1).d(-1) (high amino acid intake, HAA) at 52.0 +/- 3.0 h of life. After a minimum of 12 h of parenteral nutrition, efficacy was determined by protein balance and was significantly lower in the LAA versus HAA groups by both nitrogen balance (-0.26 +/- 0.11 versus 1.16 +/- 0.15 g.kg(-1).d(-1), p < 0.00005) and leucine stable isotope (0.184 +/- 0.17 versus 1.63 +/- 0.20 g.kg(-1).d(-1), p < 0.0005) methods. Leucine flux and oxidation and nonoxidative leucine disposal rates were all significantly higher in the HAA versus LAA groups (249 +/- 13 versus 164 +/- 8, 69 +/- 5 versus 32 +/- 3, and 180 +/- 10 versus 132 +/- 8 mumol.kg(-1).h(-1), respectively, p < 0.005), but leucine appearance from protein breakdown was not (140 +/- 15 in HAA versus 128 +/- 8 μmol.kg(-1).h(-1)). In terms of possible toxicity with HAA, there were no significant differences between groups in the amount of sodium bicarbonate administered, degree of acidosis as determined by base deficit, or blood urea nitrogen concentration. Parenteral HAA versus LAA intake resulted in increased protein accretion, primarily by increasing protein synthesis versus suppressing protein breakdown, and appeared to be well tolerated by very preterm infants in the first days of life. |
| Document Type: Article |
| Language: English |
| Reprint Address: Thureen, PJ (reprint author), Univ Colorado, Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Pediat, Sect Neonatol, B-195,4200 E 9th Ave, Denver, CO 80262 USA |
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1. Univ Colorado, Hlth Sci Ctr, Dept Pediat, Sect Neonatol, Denver, CO 80262 USA |
| Publisher: INT PEDIATRIC RESEARCH FOUNDATION, INC, 351 WEST CAMDEN ST, BALTIMORE, MD 21201-2436 USA |
| Subject Category: Pediatrics |
| IDS Number: 630ZW |
| ISSN: 0031-3998 |
| DOI: 10.1203/01.PDR.0000042441.34920.77 |
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