hyperalimentation


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hy·per·al·i·men·ta·tion

(hī′pər-ăl′ə-mĕn-tā′shən)
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Noun 1. [画像:hyperalimentation - administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava]hyperalimentation - administration of a nutritionally adequate solution through a catheter into the vena cava; used in cases of long-term coma or severe burns or severe gastrointestinal syndromes
alimentation, feeding - the act of supplying food and nourishment
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hy·per·al·i·men·ta·tion

n. hiperalimentación, sobrealimentación por vía intravenosa.
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hyperalimentation

n (overfeeding) hiperalimentación f (ant, TPN) nutrición f parenteral total (NPT)
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Treatment strategies involved conservative measures such as nasogastric decompression (in the two hospitalized patients) and hyperalimentation followed by oral feeding and frequent small meals, with parallel initiation of nutritional support, prokinetics, and proton pump inhibitors.
baumannii demonstrated that an altered nutritional status, resulting from hyperalimentation and obesity, could promote A.
Shimoyama, "Home elemental enterai hyperalimentation (HEEH) for the maintenance of remission in patients with Crohn's disease," Gastroenterologia Japonica, vol.
Modern trends of therapy with widespread, prolonged, and indiscriminate use of broad spectrum antibiotics; use of cancer chemotherapeutic agents; use of immunosuppressive drugs; irradiation; and increased use of radiological screening procedures, hyperalimentation, organ transplantations, and acquired immunodeficiency have led to increase in incidence of fungal infections.
Intradialytic hyperalimentation as adjuvant support in pregnant hemodialysis patients: case report and review of the literature.
Levenson's watch at Jacobi, a new and highly effective method of hyperalimentation was developed that quickly became the standard protocol for providing nutrition to burn patients.
Davis, "Malassezia fungemia in neonates and adults: complication of hyperalimentation.," Reviews of infectious Diseases, vol.
The concentration of plasma [P.sub.i], thereby red cell 2,3-diphosphoglycerate and ATP levels, and oxygen delivery to tissue are closely interrelated in diabetes and other conditions (hyperalimentation and uremia) as has been clearly documented [6, 15-17].
During the last several decades there have been alarming increases in aspergillosis, candidiasis, cryptococcosis, nocardiosis, and zygomycosis, which to some degree appear to be related to medical treatments such as chemotherapeutic agents, irradiation, immunosuppressive agents, broad-spectrum antibiotics, and hyperalimentation, as well as conditions such as malignancies, AIDS, malnutrition, metabolic diseases, receipt of multiple injections, certain surgeries, burns, intravenous hyperalimentation, and certain malignancies.
These include hyperalimentation, corticosteroids, H2-receptor antagonists, antibiotics, acid suppression, Cromolyn Sodium, anabolic steroids, surgery, and combinations of these therapies (7).
(5) The latter occurs when administered ammonium chloride or chloride salts of amino acids in hyperalimentation are metabolised to HCl by the liver.

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