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Published on: September 20, 2019
Hypocaloric peripheral parenteral nutrition with lipid emulsion in postoperative gastrointestinal cancer patients
Chien-Yu Lu1, Hung-Yi Chuang, Fang-Jung Yu
1Chien-Yu Lu, Li-Chu Sun, Ying-Ling Shih, Fang-Ming Chen, Jan-Sing Hsieh, Jaw-Yuan Wang, Nutrition Support Team, Kaohsiung Medical University Hospital, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan, China.
Aim:
To investigate the use of lipid emulsion substituting for glucose in postoperative hypocaloric peripheral parenteral nutrition (HPPN).
Methods:
This prospective, randomized study was conducted on 20 postoperative gastrointestinal cancer patients. They were randomized and equally divided into interventional group and control group, and both were administered isocaloric and isonitrogenous diets with for lipid emulsion substituting for partial glucose loads in the interventional group.
Results:
Nutritional parameters and biochemical data were compared between the two groups before and after 6-d of HPPN. Most investigated variables showed no significant changes after administration of HPPN with lipid emulsion. However, the postoperative triglyceride level was significantly lower in the interventional group than in the control group (P < 0.05). In comparison with lipid emulsion, glucose administration resulted in less decrease in postoperative prealbumin level (P < 0.05).
Conclusion:
In addition to supplementing with essential fatty acid, it seems that HPPN with lipid emulsion is well-tolerated and beneficial to postoperative gastrointestinal cancer patients.
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