Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 901-907 , September 2005

Oxidative stress and acute-phase response in patients with pressure sores

  • Maria Bernarda Cavalcanti Cordeiro, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, School Medicine of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel./fax: +0055-34-3318-5840.
    • ,
  • Élida Juliana Antonelli, R.N.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, School Medicine of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Brazil
    • ,
  • Daniel Ferreira da Cunha, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, School Medicine of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Brazil
    • ,
  • Alceu Afonso Jordão Júnior, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Nutrition Division of the Department of Internal Medicine, School Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil
    • ,
  • Virmondes Rodrigues Júnior, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Internal Medicine, School Medicine of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba, Brazil
    • ,
  • Helio Vannucchi, Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Nutrition Division of the Department of Internal Medicine, School Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, Ribeirão Preto, Brazil

Received 30 October 2004 ,Accepted 5 January 2005.

References 

  1. Allman RM . Pressure ulcers among the elderly . N Engl J Med . 1989;320:850–853
  2. Goode HF , Burns E , Walker BE . Vitamin C and pressure sores in elderly patients with femoral neck fracture . BMJ . 1992;305:925–927
  3. Allman RM . Epidemiology of pressure sores in different populations . Decubitus . 1989;2:30–33
  4. Goode PS , Allman RM . The prevention and management of pressure ulcers . Med Clin North Am . 1989;73:1511–1524
  5. Michocki RJ , Lamy PP . The problem of pressure sores in nursing home population (statistical data) . J Am Geriatr Soc . 1978;24:323–328
  6. Swedlund AP , Gorelick FS . Cachectin, tumor-necrosis factor, and anorexia . J Clin Gastroenterol . 1987;9:256–257
  7. Flores EA , Bistrian BR , Pomposelli JJ , Dinarello CA , Blackburn GL , Istfan NW . Infusion of tumor necrosis factor/cachectin promotes muscle catabolism in the rat. A synergistic effect with interleukin 1 . J Clin Invest . 1989;83:1614–1622
  8. Opara EI , Meguid MM , Yang ZJ , Chai JK , Veerabagu M . Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and total parenteral nutrition-induced anorexia . Surgery . 1995;118:756–760
  9. Bryan CS , Dew CE , Reynolds KL . Bacteremia associated with decubitus ulcers . Arch Intern Med . 1983;143:2093–2095
  10. Galpin JE , Chow AW , Bayer AS , Guze LB . Sepsis associated with decubitus ulcers . Am J Med . 1976;61:346–350
  11. Nagel E , Meyer zu Vilsendorf A , Bartels M , Pichlmayr R . Antioxidative vitamins in prevention of ischemia/reperfusion injury . Int J Vitam Nutr Res . 1997;67:298–306
  12. Muossavi RM , Garza HM , Eisele SG , Rodrguez G , Rintala DH . Serum levels of vitamins A, C and E in persons with chronic spinal cord injury living in the community . Arch Phys Med Rehabil . 2003;84:1061–1067
  13. Williams CM , Lines CM , McKay EC . Irion and zinc in multiple sclerosis patients with pressure sores . Eur J Clin Nutr . 1989;42:321–328
  14. Selvaag E , Bohmer T , Benkestock K . Reduced serum concentration of riboflavine and ascorbic acid, and blood thiamine pyrophosphate and pyridoxal-5-phosphate in geriatric patients with and without pressure sores . J Nutr Heath Aging . 2002;6:75–77
  15. Van Jaarsveld H , Kuyl JM , Alberts DW , Wiid MN . Antioxidant supplementation partially protects against myocardial mitochondrial ischemia/reperfusion injury, but ascorbate in the perfusate prevented the beneficial effect . Res Commun Mol Pathol Pharmacol . 1994;85:33–34
  16. Niki E . Action of ascorbic acid as a scavenger of active and stable oxygen radicals . Am J Clin Nutr . 1991;54:1119S–1124S
  17. Niki E , Noguchi N , Tsuchihashi H , Gotoh N . Interaction among vitamin C, vitamin E, and beta carotene . Am J Clin Nutr . 1995;62:1322S–1326S
  18. Gilmore SA , Robinson G , Posthauer ME , Raymond J . Clinical indicators associated with unintentional weight loss and pressure ulcers in elderly residents of nursing facilities . J Am Diet Assoc . 1995;95:984–992
  19. Goode HF , Burns E , Walker E . Vitamin C depletion and pressure sores in elderly patients with femoral neck fracture . BMJ . 1992;305:925–927
  20. Gibson RS . In: Nutritional assessment (a laboratory manual) . New York: Oxford University Press; 1993;p. 67–81
  21. Frisancho AR . New norms of upper limb fat and muscle areas for assessment of nutritional status . Am J Clin Nutr . 1981;34:2540–2545
  22. In:  Shils ME ,  Olson JA ,  Shike M editor. Modern nutrition in health and disease . Philadelphia: Lea & Febiger; 1994;p. 812–841
  23. Mackenzie TA , Clark NG , Bistrian BR , Flatt JP , Hallowell EM , Blackburn GL . A simple method for estimating nitrogen balance in hospitalized patients (a review and supporting data for a previously proposed technique) . J Am Coll Nutr . 1985;4:575–581
  24. Rose RC , Bode AM . Analysis of water soluble antioxidants by high-pressure liquid chromatography . Biochem J . 1995;306:101–105
  25. Arnaud J , Fortes I , Blachier S , Kia D , Favier A . Simultaneous determination of retinol, α-tocopherol, and β-carotene in serum by isocratic high-performance liquid chromatography . J Chromatogr . 1991;572:103–116
  26. Uchiyama M , Mihara M . Determination of malondialdehyde precursor in tissues by thiobarbituric acid test . Anal Biochem . 1978;86:271–278
  27. Gabay C , Kushner I . Acute-phase proteins and other systemic responses to inflammation . N Engl J Med . 1999;340:448–454
  28. Jordão Júnior AA , Silveira S , Figueiredo JF , Vannucchi H . Urinary excretion and plasma vitamin E levels in patients with AIDS . Nutrition . 1998;14:423–426
  29. In: Dietary reference intakes. Applications in dietary assessment . Washington, DC: National Academy of Sciences; 2000;p. 287
  30. Grimble RF . Nutritional modulation of cytokine biology . Nutrition . 1998;14:634–640
  31. Fleck A, Raines G, Hawker F, Trotter J, Wallace PI, Ledingham IM, et al. Increased vascular permeability (a major cause of hypoalbuminaemia in disease and injury) . Lancet . 1985;1:781–784
  32. Monteiro JP , Cunha DF , Cunha SFCP . Resposta de fase aguda, subnutrição e estado nutricional do ferro em adultos com AIDS . Rev Soc Bras Med Trop . 2000;33:175–180

 This study was supported by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de Minas Gerais-FAPEMIG; Teaching-Hospital, School Medicine of Triângulo Mineiro, Uberaba-MG; and Nutrition on Division of the Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine of Ribeirão Preto, USP.

PII: S0899-9007(05)00165-6

doi: 10.1016/j.nut.2005.01.008

Nutrition
Volume 21, Issue 9 , Pages 901-907 , September 2005

Article Tools

* Image Usage & Resolution