J.Jpn. Surg. Soc.. 89(9): 1351-1354, 1988

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Report on the annual meeting

METABOLIC ABNORMALITIES AND NUTRITIONAL MANAGEMENT IN
POSTOPERATIVE MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE

Despite its importance, very little has been known on metabolic abnormalities in the patients with postoperative multiple organ failure (POMOF). The present study was undertaken to investigate the metabolic abnormalities and to establish effective nutritinal management on these patients.
Systemic energy metabolism and hepatocellular mitochondrial function were studied with indirect calorimetry and arterial ketone body ratio measurements on 30 POMOF patients treated between 1984 and 1985. The POMOF patients were hypermetabolic and their hepatic mitochondrial functin was impaired. Their caloric intake was depleted for the limitation in administerable water volume due to renal failure. Some of them could not utilize exogenous glucose given by total parenteral nutrition (TPN).
To overcome these problems, on 26 POMOF patients treated between 1986 and 1987 continuous hemofiltration (CHF) was applied to remove excess water and ATP-Mg was administered to improve hepatic mitochondrial function during TPN. The suffciency rate of energy intake (caloric intake/energy expenditure) was improved from 73.3±14.7% to 92.0±8.1% with simultaneous CHF and the hepatic mitochondrial function was also improved with ATP-Mg resulting in better utilization of exogenous glucose. These results indicate that CHF and ATP-Mg administration are effective adjunctive treatfnents in the nutritional management for POMOF.

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