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Nutritional Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy

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Advances in Nutritional Research

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Abstract

Hepatic insufficiency is a common consequence of critical illness. The liver’s multiplicity of processes and its position astride the portal vein, where it receives nutrients and prepares them for distribution to the periphery, make it the central organ in any metabolic scheme. It is precisely this central role which causes the derangements of these processes in hepatic insufficiency to affect all phases of body economy.

This work was supported in part bu USPHS Grant AM-25347.

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  1. Hyperalimentation Unit, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45267, USA

    Robert H. Bower

  2. Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, 45267, USA

    Josef E. Fischer

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  1. University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario, Canada

    Harold H. Draper

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Bower, R.H., Fischer, J.E. (1983). Nutritional Management of Hepatic Encephalopathy. In: Draper, H.H. (eds) Advances in Nutritional Research. Advances in Nutritional Research. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-9937-7_1

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