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Journal of Burn Care & Research | 2009

Supplementation of vitamin E, vitamin C, and zinc attenuates oxidative stress in burned children: a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled pilot study.

Eliana Barbosa; Joel Faintuch; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; Viviane R. G. da Silva; Mauricio J. L. Pereima; Regina L. M. Fagundes; Danilo Wilhelm Filho

The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of supplementation of vitamin E, vitamin C, and zinc on the oxidative stress in burned children. In a prospective double-blind placebo-controlled pilot study, 32 patients were randomized as no supplementation (n = 15) or antioxidant supplementation (n = 17) groups. Supplementation consisted of the antioxidant mixture of vitamin C (1.5 times upper intake level), vitamin E (1.35 times upper intake level), and zinc (2.0 times recommended dietary allowance) administered during 7 days starting on the second day of admittance into the hospital. Energy requirement was calculated by the Curreri equation, and protein input was 3.0 g/kg of ideal body mass index (percentile 50°). Total antioxidant capacity of plasma and malondialdehyde were used to monitor oxidative stress. The time of wound healing was evaluated as the main clinical feature. Patients (age 54.2 ± 48.9 months, 65.6% males), who exhibited 15.5 ± 6.7% of total burn area, showed no differences in age and sex, when compared with controls. Intake of the administered antioxidants was obviously higher in treated subjects (P = .005), and serum differences were confirmed for vitamin E and C, but not for zinc (P = .180). There was a decrease in lipid peroxidation (malondialdehyde level) (P = .006) and an increase in vitamin E concentrations in the antioxidant supplementation group (P = .016). The time of wound healing was lower in the supplemented group (P < .001). The antioxidant supplementation through vitamin E and C and the mineral zinc apparently enhanced antioxidant protection against oxidative stress and allowed less time for wound healing.


Revista do Hospital das Clínicas | 1999

Pilot study with a glutamine-supplemented enteral formula in critically ill infants

Eliana Barbosa; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; José Eduardo Goes; Joel Faintuch

Seriously ill infants often display protein-calorie malnutrition due to the metabolic demands of sepsis and respiratory failure. Glutamine has been classified as a conditionally essential amino acid, with special usefulness in critical patients. Immunomodulation, gut protection, and prevention of protein depletion are mentioned among its positive effects in such circumstances. With the intent of evaluating the tolerance and clinical impact of a glutamine supplement in seriously ill infants, a prospective randomized study was done with nine patients. Anthropometric and biochemical determinations were made, and length of stay in the intensive care unit (ICU), in the hospital, and under artificial ventilation, and septic morbidity and mortality were tabulated. Infants in the treatment group (n = 5) were enterally administered 0.3 g/kg of glutamine, whereas controls received 0.3 g/kg of casein during a standard period of five days. Septic complications occurred in 75% of the controls (3/4) versus 20% of the glutamine-treated group (1/5, p < or = 0.10), and two patients in the control group died of bacterial infections (50% vs. 0%, p < or = 0.10). Days in the ICU, in the hospital, and with ventilation numerically favored glutamine therapy, although without statistical significance. The supplements were usually well tolerated, and no patient required discontinuation of the program. The conclusion was that glutamine supplementation was safe and tended to be associated with less infectious morbidity and mortality in this high-risk population.


Revista De Nutricao-brazilian Journal of Nutrition | 2007

Suplementação de antioxidantes: enfoque em queimados

Eliana Barbosa; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; Joel Faintuch; Maurício José Lopes Pereima

In burn injuries, free radicals are produced during fluid replacement, altering multiple components of the organism such as nucleic acids, lipids and proteins. Thus, if on the one hand restoring blood flow is generally necessary to recover normal cell function, on the other hand oxygen reperfusion into ischemic tissues triggers massive production of oxygen free radicals, therefore further exacerbating ischemic injury. The role of neutrophiles activated in the cell after burns has also received special attention. By means of the NADPH-oxidase system, adherent neutrophiles may release superoxide radicals inflicting major tissue damage. The burn injury not only increases the production of free radicals but it is also capable of impairing the antioxidant defense mechanism, subjecting the burned patient to oxidative stress, which can be a perpetuating factor of the inflammatory response and lead to progressive metabolic deterioration. Therefore, the purpose of this work is to provide updated information on antioxidant supplementation in burned patients and describe the benefits of this intervention.


Life Sciences | 2014

Influence of inflammatory response, infection, and pulmonary function in cystic fibrosis

Letícia Cristina Radin Pereira; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; Gabriela Datsch Bennemann; Yara Maria Franco Moreno; Ziliani da Silva Buss; Eliana Barbosa; Norberto Ludwig-Neto; Danilo Wilhelm Filho; Tânia Silvia Fröde

AIMS Recurrent infections and activation of the inflammatory response affect the prognosis of cystic fibrosis (CF). We investigated the relationship between inflammatory response, infection, and pulmonary function in CF. MAIN METHODS A clinical-cross-sectional study was conducted with 86 subjects: control group (CG, n=31, the same age and sex of the CF group), and CF group (CFG, n=55, age: 1-16 years), further distributed into CFG negative or positive bacteriology (CFGB(-)/CFGB(+)), and CFG negative or positive Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CFGPa(-)/CFGPa(+)). Using the Wald test, multiple linear regression (95% confidence interval) was performed between CG and CFG, and between CG and each of the CF subgroups (CFGB(-)/CFGB(+) and CFGPa(-)/CFGPa(+)). The inflammatory markers evaluated were myeloperoxidase (MPO), adenosine deaminase (ADA) activities, interleukin-1beta (IL-1β), tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), C-reactive protein (CRP), nitric oxide metabolites (NOx) levels, and total and differential leukocyte counts. KEY FINDINGS After adjusting for sex and age, CFG compared to CG revealed an increase of MPO, IL-1β (P<0.001 in all subgroups), and CRP: CFG (P=0.002), CFGB(-) (P=0.007), CFGB(+) (P=0.009), CFGPa(-) (P=0.004) and CFGPa(+) (P=0.020). NOx (P=0.001, P<0.001), leukocytes (P=0.002, P=0.001), and neutrophils (P=0.003, P<0.001) were increased in CFGB(+) and CFGPa(+), respectively. A negative correlation between FEV1 and leukocytes (P=0.008) and FEV1 and neutrophils (P=0.031) resulted in CFG. SIGNIFICANCE The inflammatory response characterized by the increase of MPO, IL-1β, and CRP is determinant for CF. Also leukocytosis due to neutrophilia determines the pulmonary function deficiency in this disease.


Nutrition in Clinical Practice | 2016

Problems With Optimal Energy and Protein Delivery in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit

Yara Maria Franco Moreno; Daniela Barbieri Hauschild; Eliana Barbosa; Nilzete Liberato Bresolin; Nilesh M. Mehta

BACKGROUND Optimal nutrition therapy (NT) delivery is associated with improved outcomes in critically ill children. However, avoidable barriers impede delivery of optimal energy and protein in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU). This study aims to describe the gap between energy and protein prescription and actual intake. METHODS Single-center prospective cohort study, including consecutive children (age: 1 month to 15 years) admitted to the PICU in southern Brazil. Demographics, clinical characteristics, and NT details were recorded. RESULTS We enrolled 130 patients: 37% female; median (interquartile range) age, 29.43 months (4.03, 100.63); PICU length of stay, 6 days (4, 13). Median predicted energy expenditure by Schofield equation and prescribed and actual energy intake were 47.13 kcal/kg/d (38.60, 55.38), 31.94 kcal/kg/d (13.99, 51.90), and 25.06 kcal/kg/d (10.21, 46.92), respectively. On average, actual energy intake was 47% of the predicted energy expenditure, and 68% of patients were underfed. Actual protein intake was 49% of the estimated requirement. NT was interrupted in 64% of patients. CONCLUSIONS There were significant gaps among the predicted requirement, prescription, and actual delivery of energy and protein in the PICU. Suboptimal prescription and multiple feeding interruptions resulted in underfeeding.


Nutrition in Clinical Practice | 2016

Nutrition Status Parameters and Hydration Status by Bioelectrical Impedance Vector Analysis Were Associated With Lung Function Impairment in Children and Adolescents With Cystic Fibrosis

Daniela Barbieri Hauschild; Eliana Barbosa; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; Norberto Ludwig Neto; Vanessa Borges Platt; Eduardo Piacentini Filho; Elisabeth Wazlawik; Yara Maria Franco Moreno

BACKGROUND (1) To compare nutrition and hydration status between a group of children/adolescents with cystic fibrosis (CFG; n = 46; median age, 8.5 years) and a control group without cystic fibrosis (CG). (2) To examine the association of nutrition and hydration status with lung function in the CFG. MATERIAL AND METHODS A cross-sectional study. Nutrition screening, anthropometric parameters, and bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA) were assessed. The z scores for body mass index for age, height for age, mid upper arm circumference, triceps and subscapular skinfold thickness, mid upper arm muscle area, resistance/height, and reactance/height were calculated. Bioelectrical impedance vector analysis was conducted. Forced expiratory volume in 1 second <80% was considered lung function impairment. An adjusted logistic regression was applied (P < .05). RESULTS In the CFG, lung function impairment was observed in 51.1%. All anthropometric parameters were lower, and the mean z-resistance/height and z-reactance/height were higher in the CFG (P < .05) compared with the CG. In the CFG, 43% were severely/mildly dehydrated, while none were in the CG (P = .007). In the CFG, there was an association between high nutrition risk-via nutrition screening (odds ratio [OR], 22.28; P < .05), lower values of anthropometric parameters, higher z-resistance/height (OR, 2.23; P < .05) and z-reactance/height (OR, 1.81; P < .05), and dehydration (OR, 4.94; P < .05)-and lung function impairment. CONCLUSIONS The CFG exhibited a compromised nutrition status assessed by anthropometric and BIA parameters. Nutrition screening, anthropometric and BIA parameters, and hydration status were associated with lung function.


European Journal of Clinical Nutrition | 2018

Effect of synbiotic supplementation in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis: a randomized controlled clinical trial

Maiara Brusco de Freitas; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; Diane de Lima Oliveira; Camila Tomio; Julia Salvan da Rosa; Yara Maria Franco Moreno; Eliana Barbosa; Norberto Ludwig Neto; Vittoria Buccigrossi; Alfredo Guarino; Tânia Silvia Fröde

Background/objectivesCystic fibrosis (CF) is characterized by excessive activation of immune processes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of synbiotic supplementation on the inflammatory response in children/adolescents with CF.Subjects/methodsA randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind, clinical-trial was conducted with control group (CG, n = 17), placebo-CF-group (PCFG, n = 19), synbiotic CF-group (SCFG, n = 22), PCFG negative (n = 8) and positive (n = 11) bacteriology, and SCFG negative (n = 12) and positive (n = 10) bacteriology. Markers of lung function (FEV1), nutritional status [body mass index-for age (BMI/A), height-for-age (H/A), weight-for-age (W/A), upper-arm fat area (UFA), upper-arm muscle area (UMA), body fat (%BF)], and inflammation [interleukin (IL)-12, tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-α), IL-10, IL-6, IL-1β, IL-8, myeloperoxidase (MPO), nitric oxide metabolites (NOx)] were evaluated before and after 90-day of supplementation with a synbiotic.ResultsNo significance difference was found between the baseline and end evaluations of FEV1 and nutricional status markers. A significant interaction (time vs. group) was found for IL-12 (p = 0.010) and myeloperoxidase (p = 0.036) between PCFG and SCFG, however, the difference was not maintained after assessing the groups individually. NOx diminished significantly after supplementation in the SCFG (p = 0.030). In the SCFG with positive bacteriology, reductions were found in IL-6 (p = 0.033) and IL-8 (p = 0.009) after supplementation.ConclusionsSynbiotic supplementation shown promise at diminishing the pro-inflammatory markers IL-6, IL-8 in the SCFG with positive bacteriology and NOx in the SCFG in children/adolescents with CF.


Revista Paulista De Pediatria | 2018

ASSOCIAÇÃO DO ESTADO NUTRICIONAL COM FUNÇÃO PULMONAR E MORBIDADE EM CRIANÇAS E ADOLESCENTES COM FIBROSE CÍSTICA: COORTE DE 36 MESES

Daniela Barbieri Hauschild; Anauã Franco Rosa; Julia Carvalho Ventura; Eliana Barbosa; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; Norberto Ludwig Neto; Yara Maria Franco Moreno

ABSTRACT Objective: To evaluate the association between nutritional status, lung function and morbidity in a 36-month cohort in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis. Methods: Prospective cohort of children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis aged 1-15 years. At the baseline, the nutritional status was determined by weight-for-height and body mass index-for-age for children <2 years and ≥2 years, respectively, and classified as: nutritional failure, nutritional risk and acceptable; and by the 50th percentile, according to the World Health Organization (WHO) growth charts. Lung function was assessed by forced expiratory volume in one second (FEV1). Morbidity was determined by the presence of infection and hospitalization by pulmonary exacerbation. Risk ratio and 95% confidence interval (95%CI) were calculated, being significant when p<0.05. Results: We evaluated 38 children and adolescents (median age 3.8 years). Patients that were classified as having nutritional failure at baseline had a RR of 5.00 (95%CI 1.49; 16.76) to present impaired lung function after 36 months. Those classified bellow the 50th percentile had a RR of 4.61 (95%CI 0.89; 23.81) to present the same outcome. Nutritional status was not a risk factor for morbidity in this cohort. Conclusions: Nutritional deficit was associated with impaired lung function, but not with morbidity in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis.


PLOS ONE | 2018

Altered intestinal microbiota composition, antibiotic therapy and intestinal inflammation in children and adolescents with cystic fibrosis

Maiara Brusco de Freitas; Emilia Addison Machado Moreira; Camila Tomio; Yara Maria Franco Moreno; Felipe Perozzo Daltoé; Eliana Barbosa; Norberto Ludwig Neto; Vittoria Buccigrossi; Alfredo Guarino

The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of cystic fibrosis and antibiotic therapy on intestinal microbiota composition and intestinal inflammation in children and adolescents. A cross-sectional controlled study was conducted with 36 children and adolescents: 19 in the cystic fibrosis group (CFG) and 17 in the control group (CG) matched for age and sex. The CFG was subdivided based on the use of antibiotic therapy (CFAB group) and non-use of antibiotic therapy (CFnAB group). The following data were evaluated: colonization, antibiotic therapy, mutation, breastfeeding, use of infant formula, type of delivery, introduction of solid foods, body mass index, fecal calprotectin and intestinal microbiota composition (fluorescence in situ hybridization). Intestinal inflammation evaluated by fecal calprotectin was significantly higher in the CFG (median: 40.80 µg/g, IQR: 19.80–87.10, p = 0.040) and CFAB group (median: 62.95 µg/g, IQR: 21.80–136.62, p = 0.045) compared to the CG (median: 20.15 µg/g, IQR: 16.20–31.00), and the Bacteroides, Firmicutes, Eubacterium rectale and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii were significantly decreased (p < 0.05) in the CFG compared to the CG, whereas the bacteria Clostridium difficile, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa were significantly increased in the CFG (p < 0.05). The main differences were found between the CG and CFAB group for Eubacterium rectale (p = 0.006), Bifidobacterium (p = 0.017), Escherichia coli (p = 0.030), Firmicutes (p = 0.002), Pseudomonas aeruginosa (p < 0.001) and Clostridium difficile (p = 0.006). The results of this study confirm intestinal inflammation in patients with CF, which may be related to changes in the composition of the intestinal microbiota.


Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition | 2018

Enteral Protein Supplementation in Critically Ill Children: A Randomized Controlled Pilot and Feasibility Study

Daniela Barbieri Hauschild; Luna Dias de Almeida Oliveira; Mirelle S. Farias; Eliana Barbosa; Nilzete Liberato Bresolin; Nilesh M. Mehta; Yara Maria Franco Moreno

BACKGROUND Loss of muscle mass in critically ill children can negatively impact outcomes. The aims of this study were to conduct a pilot randomized control trial (RCT) to examine the difference in protein delivery and nitrogen balance in critically ill children with enteral protein supplementation vs controls. We also aimed to assess the feasibility, safety, and tolerance of the pilot trial. METHODS This is a 3-arm RCT in critically ill children eligible for enteral nutrition (EN) therapy. Patients were randomized to 1 of the 3 groups: (1) control (routine EN), (2) polymeric protein module added to EN to reach protein goal by day 4, or (3) oligomeric protein supplementation. Demographics, clinical characteristics, nutrition status, and daily nutrition intake variables were recorded. Protein delivery, nitrogen balance, feasibility variables, and rate of adverse events were the outcomes. RESULTS After screening 286 consecutive patients admitted to the pediatric intensive care unit over 11 months, we enrolled and randomized 25 patients. Twenty-two patients (88% of the enrolled) completed the study procedures. Significantly higher protein prescription and actual protein intake within the first 5 days was achieved in the intervention groups, compared with the control group. Nitrogen balance was obtained in 15 patients. There was no significant difference between the groups for the rate of adverse effects and clinical outcomes. CONCLUSION In our pilot trial, protein supplementation was safe and well tolerated. Our preliminary results suggest that a larger RCT is potentially feasible, with some modifications of the entry criteria. Trial enrollment was low, likely due to restrictive entry criteria.

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Joel Faintuch

University of São Paulo

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Nilesh M. Mehta

Boston Children's Hospital

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Emília Addison Machado Moreira

Pennington Biomedical Research Center

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Alfredo Guarino

University of Naples Federico II

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Vittoria Buccigrossi

University of Naples Federico II

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