ReviewNutrients2018
Current Evidence about Nutrition Support in Cardiac Surgery Patients-What Do We Know?
Review in Nutrients, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06146426 (Effects of Early Oral Diet After Cardiac Surgery), which is not on this map. Cited by 41 papers, 3 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Effects of Early Oral Diet After Cardiac Surgery: an Open Label Randomized Controlled Trial
Who cites it
41 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Bio-behavioral Interventions for Cardiovascular Diseases Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review on Heart Rate Variability Biofeedback and Nutrition.Applied psychophysiology and biofeedback · 2026Pooled it
- Enhanced Recovery After Cardiac Surgery for Minimally Invasive Valve Surgery: A Systematic Review of Key Elements and Advancements.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Pooled it
- The Impact of Early Enteral Nutrition on Post-operative Hospital Stay and Complications in Infants Undergoing Congenital Cardiac Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Journal of caring sciences · 2023Pooled it
- Pre- and Immediate Postoperative Prediction Model for Organ Dysfunction or Death Early After Cardiac Surgery: A Post Hoc Analysis of a Multicenter Randomized Trial.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2026Trial
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- Frailty Assessment and Its Impact in Hospital Outcomes After Cardiac Surgery - A Prospective Observational Study.Brazilian journal of cardiovascular surgery · 2026Observational
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- Comparative prognostic performance of six nutritional risk scores in predicting early outcomes after open heart surgery: a prospective cohort study.Journal of cardiothoracic surgery · 2026Article
- Comparison between the NUTRIC score and modified NUTRIC score to predict hospital mortality in patients undergoing cardiac surgery: A retrospective study.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2026Article
- Fast-Track Extubation After Cardiac Surgery: A Narrative Review.Journal of cardiovascular development and disease · 2025Review
- Long-Term Prognostic Value of the Prognostic Nutritional Index in Patients Undergoing Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2025Article
- Impact of prognostic nutritional index on mortality among patients receiving coronary artery bypass grafting surgery: a retrospective cohort study.Heart (British Cardiac Society) · 2025Observational
- Adequacy of oral intakes after cardiac surgery within an ERAS pathway: A prospective observational study.Nutrition in clinical practice : official publication of the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition · 2025Observational
- Role of dietitians in optimizing medical nutrition therapy in cardiac surgery patients: A secondary analysis of an international multicenter observational study.JPEN. Journal of parenteral and enteral nutrition · 2025Observational
- Nutrition Optimization Among Critically Ill Patients in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit.Current cardiology reports · 2025Review
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- Predictive value of postoperative prognostic nutritional index trajectory for mortality outcomes after off-pump coronary artery bypass surgery: a retrospective cohort study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- Association of socioeconomic disadvantage with operative outcomes for infective endocarditis.PloS one · 2025Article
- The role of lipid emulsions containing omega-3 fatty acids for medical and surgical critical care patients.Critical care (London, England) · 2024Review
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Abstract
Nutrition support is increasingly recognized as a clinically relevant aspect of the intensive care treatment of cardiac surgery patients. However, evidence from adequate large-scale studies evaluating its clinical significance for patients’ mid- to long-term outcome remains sparse. Considering nutrition support as a key component in the perioperative treatment of these critically ill patients led us to review and discuss our understanding of the metabolic response to the inflammatory burst induced by cardiac surgery. In addition, we discuss how to identify patients who may benefit from nutrition therapy, when to start nutritional interventions, present evidence about the use of enteral and parenteral nutrition and the potential role of pharmaconutrition in cardiac surgery patients. Although the clinical setting of cardiac surgery provides advantages due to its scheduled insult and predictable inflammatory response, researchers and clinicians face lack of evidence and several limitations in the clinical routine, which are critically considered and discussed in this paper.
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