Serum and urinary selenium levels in thermal injury.
Information concerning selenium status in thermal injury patients is limited. Therefore, both serum selenium concentration and 24 h urinary excretion of selenium were evaluated throughout the hospital course for 23 patients with partial and full skin thickness thermal burns. Serum selenium levels were depressed throughout the hospital course in the majority of patients, and only two patients' serum selenium levels had reached the normal range by discharge. Urinary selenium losses were essentially within normal range throughout the same period and thus were not responsible for the observed depression in serum selenium levels. A possible antagonistic relationship between selenium and silver is discussed.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002056:Burns / Q000378:metabolism*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012643:Selenium / Q000378:metabolism*; D013997:Time Factors
D012643:Selenium