... to parenteral nutrition. As a general recommendation, when the clinical condition precludes oral intake, enteral nutrition should be used whenever there is a functional gastrointestinal tract. Parenteral nutrition is reserved for children with inexistent, inaccessible or dysfunctional gut, and under...

... nasogastric tube feeding, or even parenteral nutrition. 17 10 2008 Ann Nestlé [Engl] 2008;66:137 147 DOI: 10.1159/000147411 Nutritional Management of Cholestatic Syndromes in Childhood Piotr Socha Department of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Immunology, The Children s Memorial Health Institute...

...Olivier Goulet Intestinal failure (IF) requires the use of parenteral nutrition (PN). Causes of severe protracted IF include short bowel syndrome, severe motility disorders (total or subtotal aganglionosis or chronic intestinal pseudo-obstruction syndrome) and congenital diseases of enterocyte...