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Immunonutrition in Cancer Surgical Patients

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Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1998

Part of the book series: Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine ((YEARBOOK,volume 1998))

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Abstract

Both major surgery and other types of injury are associated with severe alterations of the host’s defense mechanisms and with an exuberant inflammatory response, making the patients highly susceptible to morbidity and mortality [1]. Nutritional support after injury may modulate immune, inflammatory and metabolic responses, gut function and clinical outcome of critically ill subjects. Early enteral versus parenteral feeding in traumatized and surgical patients is gaining wide consensus after promising results showing good tolerance and significant reduction of septic morbidity [2–6].

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  1. Department of Intensive Care, Erasme Hospital, Free University of Brussels, Route de Lennik 808, B-1070, Brussels, Belgium

    Jean-Louis Vincent (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Braga, M., Gianotti, L., Vignali, A. (1998). Immunonutrition in Cancer Surgical Patients. In: Vincent, JL. (eds) Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 1998. Yearbook of Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, vol 1998. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-72038-3_54

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