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Shriners Hospitals for Children - Galveston
Healthcare•Galveston, Texas, United States•
About: Shriners Hospitals for Children - Galveston is a healthcare organization based out in Galveston, Texas, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Burn injury & Lean body mass. The organization has 249 authors who have published 420 publications receiving 15311 citations.
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TL;DR: Gene therapy, initially developed for treatment of congenital defects, is a new option for enhancing wound repair, and in order to accelerate wound closure, genes encoding for growth factors or cytokines showed the greatest potential.
278 citations
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TL;DR: Morbidity and mortality in burned patients is burn size dependent, starts at a 60% TBSA burn and is due to an increased hypermetabolic and inflammatory reaction, along with impaired cardiac function.
Abstract: Increased burn size leads to increased mortality of burned patients. Whether mortality is due to inflammation, hypermetabolism or other pathophysiologic contributing factors is not entirely determined. The purpose of the present study was to determine in a large prospective clinical trial whether different burn sizes are associated with differences in inflammation, body composition, protein synthesis, or organ function. Pediatric burned patients were divided into four burn size groups: 80% TBSA burn. Demographic and clinical data, hypermetabolism, the inflammatory response, body composition, the muscle protein net balance, serum and urine hormones and proteins, and cardiac function and changes in liver size were determined. One hundred and eighty-nine pediatric patients of similar age and gender distribution were included in the study ( 80% TBSA burn, n = 21). Patients with larger burns had more operations, a greater incidence of infections and sepsis, and higher mortality rates compared with the other groups (P 80% TBSA group, followed by the 60–79% TBSA burn group (P 80% burns lost the most body weight, lean body mass, muscle protein and bone mineral content (P < 0.05). The urine cortisol concentration was highest in the 80–99% and 60–79% TBSA burn groups, associated with significant myocardial depression and increased change in liver size (P < 0.05). The cytokine profile showed distinct differences in expression of IL-8, TNF, IL-6, IL-12p70, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 and granulocyte–macrophage colony-stimulating factor (P < 0.05). Morbidity and mortality in burned patients is burn size dependent, starts at a 60% TBSA burn and is due to an increased hypermetabolic and inflammatory reaction, along with impaired cardiac function.
269 citations
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TL;DR: The accelerated mobilization and oxidation of lipids upon BAT activation supports a putative role for BAT in the regulation of lipid metabolism in humans.
243 citations
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TL;DR: Net muscle protein synthesis in healthy elderly individuals following ingestion of an isocaloric intact whey protein supplement or an essential amino acid supplement is quantified to provide an energetically efficient anabolic stimulus.
220 citations
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TL;DR: This article aims to distill the current knowledge pertaining to the stress response to burn trauma, highlighting recent developments and important knowledge gaps that need to be pursued in order to develop novel therapeutic strategies which improve outcomes in burn survivors.
204 citations
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Robert R. Wolfe | 124 | 566 | 54000 |
Csaba Szabó | 123 | 958 | 61791 |
David N. Herndon | 108 | 1227 | 54888 |
Steven E. Wolf | 74 | 419 | 21329 |
Blake B. Rasmussen | 65 | 152 | 18951 |
Marc G. Jeschke | 64 | 174 | 13903 |
Daniel L. Traber | 62 | 629 | 14801 |
Nicole S. Gibran | 60 | 273 | 14304 |
Donald S. Prough | 58 | 508 | 11644 |
David L. Chinkes | 56 | 151 | 11871 |
Labros S. Sidossis | 53 | 224 | 11636 |
Robert E. Barrow | 51 | 130 | 7114 |
Ashok K. Chopra | 49 | 199 | 7568 |
James A. Carson | 49 | 157 | 7554 |
Celeste C. Finnerty | 48 | 172 | 10647 |