Preoperative Oral Supplementation With Branched-Chain Amino Acids (BCAA) Improves Postoperative Quality of Life

• Status: Completed
• Trial end date: 2009-06-01
• Target enrollment: 0
• Participant gender: All

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.

• Phase: N/A
• Accepts Healthy Volunteers?: No

Details

• Lead Sponsor: Kochi University

Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

• Patients who underwent elective liver resection for the treatment of hepatocellular carcinoma or adenocarcinoma with chronic liver diseases.

Exclusion Criteria:

• Body weight loss greater than 10 per cent during the 6 months prior to surgery,

• The presence of distant metastases, or seriously impaired function of vital organs due to respiratory, renal or heart disease.