Author/Editor		Kozjek, N
Title		Immunonutrition and liver diseases
Type		članek
Source		In: Final program, book of lecture and abstracts of the 14th LICAGE - meeting of the Liver intensive care group of Europe; 2004 May 13-15; Ljubljana. Ljubljana: ,
Publication year		2004
Volume		str. 107-17
Language		eng
Abstract		Several specific nutritional substrates have been shown to augment and/or modulate host immune function. Enhacing immunity through diet is generally done by adding immunomodulatory nutrients, like n-3 fatty acids, Inarginine, I-glutamin, microelements and nucleotides, to an otherwise nutritionally complete formula. Recent meta-analyses of clinical trials showed that the risk of infection, iength of hospital stay and medical costs could be reduced by immunonutrition. The benefits of enteral immunonutrition seem to be most pronounced in gastrointestinal and trauma surgical patients. The effect of immunonutrition, as pharmacological perioperative nutritional support, has not been specifically studied in the patients with liver trasplantation or other liver diseases. As we know, the early postoperative nutrition is, in terms of morbidity, most beneficial following liver transplantation and perioperative enteral immunonutrition probably has similar benefits as in general population of gastrointestinal surgical patients. Further studies on the patients with liver disease are required in order to be able to evaluate immunomodulatory effect of some promising immunonutrients, especially n-3 fatty acids, I-arginine, I-glutamin, glycin and immunomodulating micronutrients.
Descriptors		LIVER DISEASES NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT GLUTAMINE ARGININE NUCLEOTIDES FATTY ACIDS, OMEGA-3