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Weight loss in ICU patients receiving dopamine

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The use of dopamine by infusion appears to be associated with an increase in the rate at which lean body mass is lost during critical illness.

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  1. Regional Intensive Care Unit/Dept of Dietetics, Royal Hospitals, Belfast, N. Ireland

    Lavery G G, Haire A, McCormick J & McCabe C

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Lavery, G.G., Haire, A., McCormick, J. et al. Weight loss in ICU patients receiving dopamine. Intensive Care Med 22 (Suppl 1), S154 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01921328

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