• Department of Emergency, Nanjing General Hospital of Nanjing Military Command, Nanjing, Jiangsu 210002, P. R. China;
NIEShi-nan, Email: shn_nie@sina.com
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Objective To explore the clinical effects of exogenous glutamine on patients suffering from sepsis with hypoalbuminemia in emergency department. Methods Eighty-six patients with sepsis and hypoalbuminemia enrolled from January to November 2013 in the Emergency Department of our hospital were randomly divided into treatment group and control group. Forty-three patients in the control group were given conventional treatments, while the other 43 in the treatment group were treated with glutamine therapy based on the conventional treatments. The clinical efficacy of the two groups including inflammatory markers, albumin level, APACHEⅡ score and SAPSⅡ score, mortality, length of hospital stay were analyzed on day 7, 14, and 28 after being enrolled. A comprehensive analysis of the clinical effects in these two groups was performed. Results Eighty-six cases were enrolled in this study. The mortality on day 14 and 28 in the treatment group was significantly lower than that in the control group (P<0.05). Inflammatory markers (WBC count, CRP concentration, and PCT concentration) in patients of the treatment group were gradually decreased, whereas serum albumin levels were gradually increased compared with the control group (P<0.05). The cure rate of patients in the treatment group was significantly higher than that in the control group, while the average length of stay was shorter than the control group (P<0.05) on day 28. Conclusion Exogenous glutamine supplementation can improve patient cure rates and reduce hospital stays which has good clinical effects on patients with sepsis and hypoalbuminemia in emergency department.

Citation: QIWei, HUANGFei, SUNZhong-yan, SUNBao-di, SUNZhao-rui, LINJin-feng, NIEShi-nan. The Clinical Effects of Exogenous Glutamine on Sepsis Patients with Hypoalbuminemia. West China Medical Journal, 2014, 29(6): 1007-1010. doi: 10.7507/1002-0179.20140308 Copy

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