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To improve patients’ empowerment by selfconnection in home parenteral nutrition
Current Directions in Biomedical Engineering, 2021 One promising approach for patients who need parenteral nutrition to live an almost normal life, is to provide extra-hospital therapy. This therapy is supported by an ambulatory care service whose staff connects and disconnects the nutritional fluid day ...
Völz Diana +3 more
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Cancer Medicine, 2020 Robust data reporting the survival of cancer patients on home parenteral nutrition (HPN) are lacking. The aim of this prospective, cohort study was to investigate clinical characteristics, predictive factors, and overall survival (OS) of adult ...
P. Cotogni +4 more
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Central Venous Catheter Complications during Home Parenteral Nutrition: A Prospective Pilot Study of 481 Patients with More than 30,000 Catheter Days [PDF]
, 2008 Background: Home parenteral nutrition (HPN) has been shown to delay deterioration in cancer patients with malnutrition. Its risk-benefit ratio, however, is determined by the threat of central venous catheter (CVC) complications.
Arnold, Dirk +4 more
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Home Parenteral Nutrition in Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Nutrition and Cancer, 2020 The use of home parenteral nutrition (HPN) in patients with incurable cancer remains controversial with significant variation worldwide. We aimed to systematically evaluate the literature from 1960 to 2018 examining the use of HPN in advanced cancer ...
F. O'Hanlon +6 more
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Home Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition
Nutrients, 2022 While the history of nutrition support dates to the ancient world, modern home parenteral and enteral nutrition (HPEN) has been available since the 1960s. Home enteral nutrition is primarily for patients in whom there is a reduction in oral intake below the amount needed to maintain nutrition or hydration (i.e., oral failure), whereas home parenteral ...
Jamie Bering, John K. DiBaise
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JPEN - Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2020 Background Use of catheter lock solutions (CLSs) as a strategy to prevent catheter‐related bloodstream infections (CRBSIs) has been evaluated in recent clinical trials. Our aim was to identify the most effective CLS formulation in patients receiving home
Y. Wouters +4 more
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European Journal of Case Reports in Internal Medicine, 2020 Home parenteral nutrition is a therapeutic option for chronic intestinal failure. A tunnelled central venous catheter is commonly used for self-application of nutrition and hydration over a long period of time; that is, months or years.
Laura Gombošová +4 more
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JPEN - Journal of Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition, 2020 BACKGROUND Children with intestinal failure (IF) are at risk of growth failure, but little information about body composition is available. Our aim was to assess body composition using air displacement plethysmography (ADP) and relate it to clinical and ...
E. Neelis +10 more
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Bone mineral density in patients on home parenteral nutrition: a follow-up study. [PDF]
, 2004 Home artificial ...
DE FRANCESCO A +9 more
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Clinical Nutrition ESPEN, 2020 BACKGROUNDS AND AIMS Long term central venous access for Home Parenteral Nutrition (HPN) is associated with catheter related complications. The most studied and well known of these is Catheter Related Blood Stream Infection (CRBSI).
D. Leiberman +4 more
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