Advanced Search

Journal Navigation

Journal Home

Subscriptions

Archive

Contact Us

Table of Contents

Click here to sign up for SAGE Journal Email Alerts today!

Sign In to gain access to subscriptions and/or personal tools.
Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
This Article
Right arrow Full Text (PDF)
Right arrow References
Right arrow Alert me when this article is cited
Right arrow Alert me if a correction is posted
Right arrow Citation Map
Services
Right arrow Email this article to a friend
Right arrow Similar articles in this journal
Right arrow Similar articles in PubMed
Right arrow Alert me to new issues of the journal
Right arrow Add to Saved Citations
Right arrow Download to citation manager
Right arrowRequest Permissions
Right arrow Request Reprints
Right arrow Add to My Marked Citations
Citing Articles
Right arrow Citing Articles via HighWire
Right arrow Citing Articles via Google Scholar
Right arrow Citing Articles via Scopus
Google Scholar
Right arrow Articles by Dionigi, P.
Right arrow Articles by Gratton, I.
Right arrow Search for Related Content
PubMed
Right arrow PubMed Citation
Right arrow Articles by Dionigi, P.
Right arrow Articles by Gratton, I.
Social Bookmarking
Add to CiteULike   Add to Complore   Add to Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us   Add to Digg   Add to Reddit   Add to Technorati   Add to Twitter  
What's this?

Nutritional and Immunological Evaluations in Cancer Patients. Relationship to Surgical Infections

Paolo Dionigi, M.D.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Renzo Dionigi, M.D.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Stefano Nazari, M.D.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Alberto Pietro Bonoldi, M.D.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Antonella Griziotti, Biol. D.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Franco Pavesi, M.D.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Carlo Tibaldeschi, M.D.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Flavio Cividini, B.S.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Ilvo Gratton, B.S.

From the Istituto di Patologia Chirurgica and Istituto di Scienza delta Alimentazione, University of Pavia-Servizio di Analisi Chimico-Cliniche, Policlinico San Matteo, Pavia, Italy

Several reports provide evidence of the synergism between malnutrition and infection in hospitalized patients. In this study, preoperative complete nutritional assessment (NA) was performed to: 1) evaluate NA modifications in 21 controls with benign minor surgical diseases and in 71 surgical cancer patients; 2) determine the relative value of nutritional and immunological indicators in relation to the postoperative septic complications in cancer patients. The following parameters were used: percent ideal body weight, percent usual body weight, percent weight loss/month, percent standard arm circumference, percent standard triceps skinfold; hematocrit, hemoglobin, serum proteins, albumin, iron, transferrin, ceruloplasmin, retinol binding protein (RBP); serum creatinine, urine creatinine, creatinine/height index, percent arm muscle circumference; peripheral lymphocytes, white blood cells, complement (C3c), skin tests. In the cancer group percent usual body weight, percent arm muscle circumference, hematocrit, hemoglobin, albumin, iron, ceruloplasmin, retinol binding protein, C3c and delayed hypersensitivity response (DHR) were significantly different from controls. Ceruloplasmin and DHR were the only tests significantly different in the cancer patients who developed postoperative infections. Duration of anesthesia and operative field contamination are other important causative factors which, if associated with malnutrition, may determine a higher susceptibility to infections in surgical cancer patients.

Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, Vol. 4, No. 4, 351-356 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/014860718000400403
Add to CiteULike CiteULike   Add to Complore Complore   Add to Connotea Connotea   Add to Del.icio.us Del.icio.us   Add to Digg Digg   Add to Reddit Reddit   Add to Technorati Technorati   Add to Twitter Twitter    What's this?


This article has been cited by other articles:


Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
E. Svanberg
Growth Hormone Increases and IGF-I Reduces the Response to Escherichia coli Infusion in Injured Pigs K UNNEBERG, L BALTESKARD, M MJAALAND, ET AL Eur J Surg 1997;163:779-788
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, July 1, 1998; 22(4): 247 - 248.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
M. M. Gottschlich, M. Jenkins, G. D. Warden, T. Baumer, P. Havens, J. T. Snook, and J. W. Alexander
Differential Effects of Three Enteral Dietary Regimens on Selected Outcome Variables in Burn Patients
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, May 1, 1990; 14(3): 225 - 236.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
F. Bozzetti
Nutritional Assessment from the Perspective of a Clinician
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, September 1, 1987; 11(5_suppl): 115S - 121S.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
M. Miglioli, L. Pironi, G. Luca Cornia, M. Salera, and L. Barbara
Optimal Nutritional Indexes in Gastroenterology
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, September 1, 1987; 11(5_suppl): 126S - 129S.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
F. Bozzetti, S. Migliavacca, G. Gallus, G. Radaelli, A. Scotti, M. G. Bonalumi, M. Ammatuna, C. Sequeira, and G. Terno
"Nutritional" Markers as Prognostic Indicators of Postoperative Sepsis in Cancer Patients
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, July 1, 1985; 9(4): 464 - 470.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
F. Bozzetti, M. Grazia Inglese, G. Terno, A. Pupa, C. Sequeira, and S. Migliavacca
Hypocupremia in Patients Receiving Total Parenteral Nutrition
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, November 1, 1983; 7(6): 563 - 566.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
M. H. Torosian, J. L. Mullen, E. E. Miller, K. R. Zinsser, T. P. Stein, and G. P. Buzby
Enhanced Tumor Response to Cycle-Specific Chemotherapy by Parenteral Amino Acid Administration
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, July 1, 1983; 7(4): 337 - 345.
[Abstract] [PDF]

Home page
 JPEN J Parenter Enteral NutrHome page
P. Dionigi, S. Nazari, A. P. Bonoldi, F. Cividini, S. Olezza, and R. Dionigi
Nutritional Assessment and Surgical Infections in Patients with Gastric Cancer or Peptic Ulcer
JPEN J Parenter Enteral Nutr, March 1, 1982; 6(2): 128 - 133.
[Abstract] [PDF]