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Serum alpha-tocopherol levels after high-dose enteral vitamin E administration in patients with acute respiratory failure.

Serum levels of tocopherols were measured in 5 healthy volunteers and in 14 patients with acute respiratory failure before and after onset of high-dose enteral vitamin E administration. The initial alpha-tocopherol levels did not differ between both groups (12.1 +/- 2.7 micrograms/ml in the volunteers and 11.3 +/- 3.5 micrograms/ml in the patients; mean +/- SD). After oral administration of 1 g d,l-alpha-tocopherylacetate per day the serum levels more than doubled within 1 day and reached a plateau between 22 and 30 micrograms/ml after 3 days in the volunteers. In contrast, application of even 3 g vitamin E/day by gastric tube in the patients with respiratory failure caused only a delayed increase of the serum levels with values nearly doubling after 5-10 days (6 patients), or there was no increase at all (8 patients). Serum alpha-tocopherol did not rise in patients without accompanying highmolecular weight formula diet and in patients with prolonged hemodynamic insufficiency and metabolic acidosis. The age of the patients, the fact of severe blood losses, hemodialysis and hemofiltration and the final outcome of death or survival appeared to be without influence on the response to enteral vitamin application. Neither in the volunteers nor in the patients with acute respiratory failure were there any detectable amounts of beta-, gamma- or delta-tocopherol or of alpha-tocopherolquinone or alpha-tocotrienol.[1]

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