Pressure ulcer
Conditions
Interventions
Food containing 2.5 g of L-ornithine per day (ORNUTE
KYOWA HAKKO BIO CO., LTD., Tokyo, Japan) was administered for 8 weeks by orally or enterally, twice daily (morning and evening).
Sponsors
Kurume University School of Medicine
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: *The Omuta Memorial Hospital (Fukuoka, Japan) inpatients with Shea's Pressure Sores Classification grade 2 and more *Patients from whom or whose legal representative written informed consent is obtained
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: *Patients with history of high hypersensitivity *Patients with renal disease who is inadequate for the study *Patients with following conditions which may affect the blood albumin level irrelevantly to nutritional status -Malignancy -Acute inflammatory diseases such as infectious disease -Serious hepatic disorders such as cirrhosis -Severe burn or injury -History of metabolic disorders of amino acid *Patients at risk of acquiring allergy related the study *Patients with remarkable higher or lower laboratory values or physiological measurement than reference value *Patients included in other clinical studies within 3 months or in process *Patients with other conditions which principal investigator consider inadequate such as routine users of similar food (e.g. amino acid supplement)
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| DESIGN-R score, blood prealbumin, blood retinol-binding protein, blood transferrin, urinary 3-methyl-histidine | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Public ContactKimio Asagiri
Kurume University School of Medicine Department of Pediatric Surgery, Kurume University School of Medicine
Outcome results
None listed