From: A capillary blood ammonia bedside test following glutamine load to improve the diagnosis of hepatic encephalopathy in cirrhosis
Patients
Baseline
30 minutes
60 minutes
75.2 ± 22 umol/l
117 ± 16 umol/l*#
169 ± 51 umol/l*#
Healthy subjects
52 ± 11 umol/l
59 ± 15 umol/l
76 ± 23 umol/l