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Total parenteral nutrition: A boon to non-functional gastrointestinal patients

Intelligent Pharmacy
About 25 years ago it became apparent that TPN had value in the management of critically ill patients who were not being normally nourished because they either had gastrointestinal failure or could not tolerate the enteral preparations offered.
Akhlak Ahmed Khan, Anwar Khan, Mohsin Ali Khan, Devendra Kumar, Kamran Javed Naquvi   +4 more
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In-hospital parenteral nutrition use: A cohort study of administrative and computational challenges

Clinical Nutrition Open Science
Summary: Background & aims: Parenteral nutrition is a vital modality administered to patients with gastrointestinal tracts unable to support sufficient nutritional intake.
Marc Romain, Charles Weissman, Khuloud Abu-Tair, Abdallah Alaaldein, Rivki Harari, Orit Bitner, Alexander Furmanov, Shaul Yaari   +7 more
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Chylous ascites as a complication of nephroureterectomy

Urological Science, 2015
Chylous ascites may be the result of many pathological conditions, including congenital defects of the lymphatic system, nonspecific bacterial, parasitic and tuberculous peritoneal infection, liver cirrhosis, malignant neoplasm, blunt abdominal trauma ...
Chi-Hang Hsiao, Chung- Cheng Yu, Tzuo-Yi Hsieh, Yu-Lin Kao, Shao-Chuan Wang, Wen-Jung Chen, Sung-Lang Chen   +6 more
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The clinical and economic value of the dipeptide alanyl-glutamine in total parenteral nutrition of critically ill patients treated in intensive care units in Italy

Farmeconomia: Health Economics and Therapeutic Pathways, 2009
Introduction: the supplementation of alanyl-glutamine dipeptide in critically ill patients necessitating total parenteral nutrition (TPN) improves clinical outcomes, reducing mortality, infection rate, and shortening ICU hospital lengths of stay (LOS ...
Maurizio Muscaritoli, Lorenzo Pradelli, Orietta Zaniolo, Sergio Iannazzo, Mario Eandi   +4 more
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Acute abdomen due to late retroperitoneal extravasation from a femoral venous catheter in a newborn

São Paulo Medical Journal
CONTEXT: The use of parenteral nutrition via a central venous catheter is a common practice in the neonatal intensive care setting. Extravasation of the infusate leading to an acute abdomen is a complication that has only rarely been documented.
Jaques Sztajnbok, Eduardo Juan Troster
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La realidad de la nutrición parenteral domiciliaria en España The reality of home-based parenteral nutrition in Spain

Nutrición Hospitalaria, 2011
Es importante conocer la magnitud y características de de la Nutrición Parenteral Domiciliaria NPD en España fundamentalmente para facilitar que la toma de decisiones tanto clínicas como de gestión se realicen basadas en el conocimiento.
J. Juana-Roa, C. Wanden-Berghe, J. Sanz-Valero   +2 more
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Aluminum exposure in premature babies related to total parenteral nutrition and treatments

The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics, 2018
This study aimed to measure aluminum contamination of parenteral nutrition (PN) solutions and aluminum contents of parenteral products given to newborn infants for nutrition or treatment. In this study, the aluminum content of the first products used to
Emre Aşut, Nilgün Köksal, Bayram Ali Dorum, Hilal Özkan   +3 more
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The Effect of Fish Oil-Based Lipid Emulsion and Soybean Oil-Based Lipid Emulsion on Cholestasis Associated with Long-Term Parenteral Nutrition in Premature Infants

Gastroenterology Research and Practice, 2016
Purpose. To retrospectively study the effect of fish oil-based lipid emulsion and soybean oil-based lipid emulsion on cholestasis associated with long-term parenteral nutrition in premature infants. Methods.
Leilei Wang, Jing Zhang, Jiejin Gao, Yan Qian, Ya Ling   +4 more
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Total parenteral nutrition.

BMJ, 1983
C R Pennington, J M Richards
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An open label randomized multicentre phase IIIb trial comparing parenteral substitution versus best supportive nutritional care in subjects with pancreatic adenocarcinoma receiving 5-FU plus oxaliplatin as 2^nd or higher line chemotherapy regarding clinical benefit - PANUSCO

BMC Cancer, 2009
Background Pancreatic cancer is an extremely aggressive malignancy. Subjects are afflicted with a variety of disconcerting symptoms, including profound cachexia. Recent data indicate that the outcome of oncological patients suffering from cancer cachexia
Rötzer Ingeborg, Büchler Markus W, Ose Jennifer, Wente Moritz N, Märten Angela, Decker-Baumann Christiane, Karapanagiotou-Schenkel Irini, Harig Sabine, Schmidt Jan, Jäger Dirk   +9 more
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