Jules C. Abels

METABOLIC STUDIES IN PATIENTS WITH CANCER OF THE GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT. II. HEPATIC DYSFUNCTION

Excerpt In a previous communication1it was demonstrated that about 85 per cent of patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract had abnormally low plasma levels of vitamin A. In the majority o...

Metabolic Studies in Patients with Gastrointestinal Cancer. III. The Hepatic Concentrations of Vitamin A.

Conclusions The low plasma levels of vitamin A of patients with cancer of the gastrointestinal tract probably are not due to a decreased capacity of the livers of those patients to store the vitamin.

Metabolic Studies in Patients with Cancer of the Gastro-Intestinal Tract. XX. Lipotropic Properties of Protein.∗

Conclusions 1. Patients with gastrointestinal cancer fed protein-rich diets pre operatively do not have fatty infiltration of the liver at laparotomy. 2. Patients with gastro-intestinal cancer who ingested 75 g of amino acid mixture during the 10 hours before operation were found at laparotomy to have concentrations of fat as abnormally high as those of fasted patients.