Oesophageal atresia: Metabolic effects of operation

Appraisal of the State of Nutrition of Babies of Low Birth Weight.

“…The method has been used to study the metabolism of normal fullterm babies and babies recovering from birth METABOLIC BALANCE STUDIES malities of the alimentary tract Hughes. et aZ., 1964;Hughes, et d., 1965;Wilkinson, et al, 1965).…”

The hormonal and metabolic response to stress in the neonate

“…Studies of postoperative nitrogen balance in term neonates originate with Rickham in 1957. Since that time, several investigators have substantiated a strongly negative nitrogen balance in response to surgical stress and have demonstrated that this may persist for 72-96 h [36,78,91,118,152]. These studies have demonstrated that the severity of surgical stress correlates with the degree of nitrogen loss.…”

The Starving Newborn Baby

“…Less than 10% of the original body protein is catabolized but up to 30% or more of the fat (Hughes, Stevens & Wilkinson, 1964).…”