Article Text
Review
Current issues in the management of intestinal failure
Abstract
Successful long term parenteral nutrition has transformed the prognosis for children with irreversible intestinal failure in the last three decades, but has also highlighted the long term complications: intestinal failure associated liver disease; recurrent catheter sepsis; and impaired venous access. Recent advances in small bowel transplantation and non-transplant surgical techniques now offer hope of sustained survival in the future without parenteral nutrition.
- intestinal failure
- parenteral nutrition
- intestinal transplantation
- short bowel syndrome
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Competing interests: none declared