NCT02407769

Late Evening Supplementation With Branched Chain Amino Acids in Liver Transplantation

Effect of a Late Evening Supplementation With Branched Chain Amino Acids on the Nutritional Status in Patients on the Waiting List for Liver Transplantation

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 38 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Universidad de Guanajuato · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 70 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

Assess the impact in body composition and handgrip strength of the nocturne supplementation by a month with BCAA (Enterex hepatic in patients awaiting liver transplantation)

Detailed description

Clinical trial study was make, data were obtained from people awaiting liver transplantation and with at least a criteria of protein/energy malnutrition (fase angle \< 5.4°, subjective global assessment B or C and/or handgrip strength \< 30 in men and \< 20 in women). The investigators make them body composition assessment (weight, height, body mass index \[BMI\], mean arm circumference \[MAC\], muscle arm area \[MAA\], tricipital skinfold, Dual X ray absorptiometry \[fat mass and fat free mass\]) and handgrip strength at beginning and after 30 days of nocturne supplementation with BCAA and standardized diet (35-40 Kcal, 55% carbohydrates, 25% lipids and 20% proteins).

Conditions

• Liver Cirrhosis

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
DIETARY_SUPPLEMENT	Late evening supplementation with branched chain amino acids	The patients will drink a Enterex Hepatic bag (500 Kcal, 18.6g of proteins of which 8.63g are branched chain amino acids, 71.7g of carbohydrates and 15.4g of lipids) during late evening (after 19:00 hours) in comparison with the late evening snack group which will eat a snack based in food with the next nutrimental facts (480 Kcal, 19g of proteins based in casein and vegetables sources, 17g of lipids and 63g of carbohydrates) during the same schedule that intervention group.

Timeline

• Start date: 2014-02-01
• Primary completion: 2016-12-01
• Completion: 2017-12-01
• First posted: 2015-04-03
• Last updated: 2015-04-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Mexico