nPCR assessment and IDPN treatment of malnutrition in pediatric hemodialysis patients

• Published in: Pediatric nephrology (Berlin, West) Vol. 17; no. 7; pp. 531 - 534
• Main Authors: Goldstein, Stuart L, Baronette, Shannon, Gambrell, Tywanna Vital, Currier, Helen, Brewer, Eileen D
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Germany Springer Nature B.V 01.07.2002
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; Adult; Body Weight; Humans; Kidney Failure, Chronic - complications; Kidney Failure, Chronic - therapy; Parenteral Nutrition - methods; Protein-Energy Malnutrition - diagnosis; Protein-Energy Malnutrition - etiology; Protein-Energy Malnutrition - therapy; Proteins - metabolism; Renal Dialysis - methods; Sensitivity and Specificity; Serum Albumin - metabolism

Very few pediatric studies have monitored nutritional status using normalized protein catabolic rate (nPCR) or treating protein-energy malnutrition (PEM) with intradialytic parenteral nutrition (IDPN). The current study compares nPCR with serum albumin as a marker for nutritional status and examines...