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.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 259-264 |
| Number of pages | 6 |
| Journal | Archives of Disease in Childhood |
| Volume | 91 |
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| Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2006 |