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Systematic review: medical and nutritional interventions for the management of intestinal failure and its resultant complications in children
Author(s) -
Barclay A. R.,
Beattie L. M.,
Weaver L. T.,
Wilson D. C.
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
alimentary pharmacology and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.308
H-Index - 177
eISSN - 1365-2036
pISSN - 0269-2813
DOI - 10.1111/j.1365-2036.2010.04514.x
Subject(s) - medicine , enteral administration , parenteral nutrition , psychological intervention , short bowel syndrome , pediatrics , medline , intestinal failure , cinahl , intensive care medicine , necrotizing enterocolitis , randomized controlled trial , psychiatry , political science , law
Intestinal failure (IF) affects a growing number of children due to increasing numbers of preterm infants surviving intestinal resection for necrotising enterocolitis and improving surgical techniques for congenital gut anomalies. Parenteral nutrition (PN) is the mainstay of therapy; enteral nutrition may have trophic effects on the gut.