Article
Changes in serum prealbumin as a marker for nitrogen balance in surgical oncology patients
2022-05-17
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Serum prealbumin has long been used as a marker of nutritional status. However, prealbumin is a negative acute phase reactant influenced by several non-nutritional-related factors including surgery, infection, and cancer. An increasing prealbumin has been correlated with a positive nitrogen balance in general surgery patients receiving parenteral nutrition (PN) with 88% specificity and 70% se...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 99120342-660f-5e8d-9f7f-833331a1a455
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-1622649/v1
