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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 20, 1984
Filed:
Apr. 29, 1982
George L Blackburn, Cambridge, MA (US);
Other;
Abstract
Disclosed is a novel nutritional branched chain amino acid composition and its use for treatment of a patients suffering stress or injury, especially useful for parenteral or enteral alimentation of a patient suffering total or partial dysfunction or disuse of the gastrointestinal tract. The novel composition promotes and even optimizes patient wound healing, immune competence, host defense, and/or survival. The amino acids comprise from about 70 to 100% valine, isoleucine, and leucine, collectively, in a ratio of A:B:C, respectively, where A, B and C each independently has value from about 1 to 2. The novel composition is preferably used in the form of a parenteral infusion solution of from about 2 to 6%, most preferably 4% concentration.