• Ettore Crimi, Antonio Liguori, Mario Condorelli, Michele Cioffi, Marinella Astuto, Paola Bontempo, Orlando Pignalosa, Maria Teresa Vietri, Anna Maria Molinari, Vincenzo Sica, Francesco Della Corte, and Claudio Napoli.
• Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care, University of Eastern Piedmont, Via Solaroli 17, Novara 28100, Italy. etcrimi@tin.it
• Anesth. Analg. 2004 Sep 1;99(3):857-63, table of contents.

AbstractWe investigated whether intervention with antioxidant vitamins C and E in enteral feeding influenced oxidative stress and clinical outcome in critically ill patients. Two-hundred-sixteen patients expected to require at least 10 days of enteral feeding completed the study. One-hundred-five patients received enteral feeding supplemented with antioxidants, and 111 control patients received an isocaloric formula. Plasma lipoperoxidation (by thiobarbituric acid reactive substances [TBARS] and prostaglandin F(2alpha) isoprostane levels), low-density lipoprotein (LDL) oxidizability, and LDL tocopherol content were determined at baseline and at the end of the 10-day period. The clinical 28-day outcome was also assessed. Plasma TBARS and isoprostanes were 5.33 +/- 1.26 nM/mL and 312 +/- 68 pg/mL, respectively, before treatment and 2.42 +/- 0.61 nM/mL and 198 +/- 42 pg/mL after intervention (P < 0.01 for both comparisons). Antioxidants improved LDL resistance to oxidative stress by approximately 30% (the lag time before treatment was 87 +/- 23 min and was 118 +/- 20 min after treatment; P < 0.04). There was a significantly reduced 28-day mortality after antioxidant intervention (45.7% in the antioxidant group and 67.5% in the regular-feeding group; P < 0.05). Isoprostanes may provide a sensitive biochemical marker for dose selection in studies involving antioxidants.

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