Rifat Latifi
University of Arizona

Stanley J. Dudrick
Yale University

About this Book

The chapters in this book vary from methods of assessing and monitoring nutritional status to those of the use of intravenous and enternal nutritional support. Practical chapters define laparoscopic placement of feeding tubes as well as the use of a variety of nutritional substrates, which can be administered in different clinical scenarios. The discovery, implementation and utilization of total parenteral nutritional support have made enormous benefits to patients; saving lives and improving clinical outcome.

Table of Contents

1. Clinical Implications of Carbohydrate, Proteins, Lipids, Vitamins
and Trace Elements in Nutrition Support
Larry H. Bernstein

2. Current Nutrient Substrates
Wendy Swails Bollinger, Timothy J. Babineau and George L. Blackburn

3. Biochemistry of Amino Acids: Clinical Nutrition
Rifat Latifi and Khawaja Aizimuddin

4. Acute Phase Proteins in Critically Ill Patients
Khawaja Azimuddin, Rifat Latifi and Rao R. Ivatury

5. Arginine Metabolism in Critical Care and Sepsis
Rima I. Kandalaft, Bruce Gossi

6. Wound Healing and the Role of Nutrient Substrates
David A. Lanning and Rifat Latifi

7. Protein Metabolism in Liver and Intestine during Sepsis: Mediators, Molecular Regulation, and Cinical Implications
Timothy A. Pritts, Eric Hungnness and Per-Olof Hasselgren

8. Biochemical Assessment and Monitoring of Nutritional Status
Robert S. DeChicco, Laura E. Matarese, Douglas Seidner and Ezra Steiger

9. Optimizing Drug Therapy and Enteral Nutrition: Detecting Drug-Nutrient Interactions
Marcia L. Brackbill and Gretchen M. Brophy

10. Techniques and Monitoring of Total Parenteral Nutrition
Renee Piazza-Barnett, Laura E. Matarese, Douglas L. Seidner and Ezra Steiger

11. Radiologic Assessment of Nutritional and Metabolic Status
Diane R. Horowitz and Rifat Latifi

12. Enteral Nutrition: Indications, Monitoring and Complications
Gayle Minard

13. Enteral Access: Open, Endoscopic & Laparoscopic Techniques
Keith Zuccala and John M. Porter

14. Total Parenteral Nutrition: Current Concepts and Indications
Rifat Latifi and Stanley J. Dudrick

15. Intestinal Adaptation: New Insights
Jon S. Thompson

16. Intestinal Regeneration and Nutrition
Jon S. Thompson, Shailendra K. Saxena and John G. Sharp

17. Nutritional and Metabolic Support of Short Bowel Syndrome
Stanley J. Dudrick

18. Pharmacologic Aspects of Short Bowel Syndrome
Patricia Pecora Fulco and Donald F. Kirby

19. Nutritional Support in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
John H. Seashore and Melissa F. Perkal

20. Nutrition Support of Acute Pancreatitis
Rifat Latifi, Stephen J.D. O’Keefe and Stanley J. Dudrick

21. Nutritional Management of Chronic Pancreatitis: Current Concepts
Rifat Latifi, Paul G. Perch and Stanley J. Dudrick

22. Nutritional Support in Liver Failure and Liver Transplantation
Rifat Latifi, Giacomo Basadonna and Amadeo Marcos

23. Nutritional Support in Renal Transplantation
Susan T. Crowley, Richard Formica and Antonio Cayco

24. Biology of Nutrition Support in the Critically Ill Patient
Rifat Latifi

25. Nutrition Support in Patients with Pulmonary Failure and ARDS
Vanessa Fuchs, A.K. Malhotra and Rifat Latifi

26. Nutritional Support for the Burned Patient
G.J.P Williams, Michael J. Muller and David N. Herndon

27. Nutritional Support after Small Bowel Transplantation
S. Janes, S.V. Beath

28. Nutritional Support in Patients with Head and Neck Cancer
Matthew E. Cohen and Rosemarie L. Fisher

29. Nutritional Support in Patients with Gastrointestinal, Pancreatic and Liver Cancer
Matthew E. Cohen

30. The Treatment of Obesity
Souheil Abou-Assi, Rifat Latifi and Stephen J D O’Keefe