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Protein-Sparing Therapy After Major Abdominal Surgery

Giovanni Battista Doglietto, L Gallitelli, Fabio Pacelli, Rocco Bellantone, Marina Malerba, Antonio Sgadari, F Crucitti

Annals of Surgery · 1996 · 42 citations · 5 references

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Abstract

The present study indicates that routine protein-sparing therapy for patients normonourished or mildly malnourished undergoing major abdominal surgery is not clinically justified.

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Perioperative Total Parenteral Nutrition in Surgical Patients

New England Journal of Medicine · 1991 · 1.2K citations · Full text

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Rocco Bellantone, G.B. Doglietto, Maurizio Bossola et al. · Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 1988 · 73 citations

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David H. Elwyn, Frank E. Gump, Mary Iles et al. · Metabolism · 1978 · 46 citations

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