Preoperative Oral Supplementation With Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAA) Improves Postoperative Quality of Life
Status:
Completed
Trial end date:
2009-06-01
Target enrollment:
Participant gender:
Summary
The aims of this study are (1) to study the benefit of branched-chain amino acids enriched
nutrient-mixture by analyzing a variety of clinical parameter, including laboratory data, the
duration of hospitalization after the surgery, and (2) To investigate the postoperative
quality of life (QOL) in receiving peri-operatively branched-chain amino acids enriched
nutrient-mixture in patients who undergone the hepatic management for hepatocellular
carcinoma (HCC) with chronic liver disease.