L-Glutamic Acid and Reduced Acute Kidney Injury Incidence

• Effectiveness of amino acid supplementation in preventing acute kidney injury following cardiac surgery: A systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.

  • 2025-05-23
  • Meta-Analysis
  • Acta anaesthesiologica Scandinavica 69(6)
  • • Mir Wajid Majeed
    • Emma Finnegan
    • Mariano Gallo Ruelas
    • Lucca Moreira Lopes
    • Bruno Branco Righetto
    • Issa Salha
    • Daniel Delgado
    • Melissa Chacón Quirós
    • Assaina Tatiana Jaquissone Tomo
    • Raheel Ahmad
    • Suhaib Andrabi
    • Samer Abujaber

  • PubMed: 40411139
  • DOI: 10.1111/aas.70037

  1 Insight on

  • Reduced Acute Kidney Injury Incidence

  • High evidence
  • Clinical

  Preliminary findings from glutamic acid and glutamine (single AA interventions) showed potential benefits in reducing AKI incidence (CoE: Very low) and improving surrogate biomarkers, respectively.

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No