Neuroactive amino acids in hepatic encephalopathy
โ Scribed by Roger F. Butterworth
- Book ID
- 112685908
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 1996
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 475 KB
- Volume
- 11
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0885-7490
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After careful analysis of the literature, Eriksson and Conn (1) concluded that branched-chain amino acid (BCAA) therapy does not appear to significantly affect the prognosis of patients with acute hepatic encephalopathy (HE). In a metanalysis of almost the same studies, Naylor et al. (2) reached the
The authors undertook a meta analysis of nine randomized clinical trials (RCTs) in which modified amino acid solutions that contained supplemental amounts of branched-chain amino acids (BCAA) were compared with other forms of therapy of hepatic encephalopathy (HE). When five RCTs were pooled, analys