[Status of nitrogen balance and parenteral feeding in peritonitis]

Under study were parameters of protein metabolism and state of nitrogen balance in 83 patients with peritonitis, in 29 of them (with diffuse peritonitis) partial parenteral nutrition was performed. It reduced the degree of protein catabolism, facilitated elimination of metabolic disorders. Reinforcement of the ration of the caloric-nitrogen nutrition in order to completely fill up the energetic and plastic expenditures of the organism at the early postoperative period will entail danger of superflous transfusion load.