Endoscopic Placement of Feeding Tubes by Gabor P Kandel

“…Nevertheless, compared to the other options available for patients unable to swallow (allowing malnutrition to proceed, tube feeding, surgical gastrostomy, parenteral nutrition), percutaneous gastrostomy is the procedure of choice in virtually all cases if the intestine is functioning.…”
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Treatment of Inflammatory Bowel Disease in Children by D Grant Gall

“…An initial period of total parenteral nutrition followed by a six to eight week course of enteral therapy with a semisynthetic diet has been shown to be effective in the management of patients with severe active disease and growth failure.…”
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Nutrition and Crohn's Disease: An Overview by C Ó'Moráin

“…Nutrition can be improved in patients with Crohn's disease by total parenteral nutrition (TPN) or enteral nutrition. TPN induces long term remission in over 50% of patients with Crohn's disease. …”
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Psychogenic Polydipsia: The Result, or Cause of, Deteriorating Psychotic Symptoms? A Case Report of the Consequences of Water Intoxication by Melissa Gill, MacDara McCauley

“…It can occur in athletes engaging in endurance sports, users of MDMA (ecstasy), and patients receiving total parenteral nutrition. This case outlines water intoxication in a patient with psychogenic polydipsia. …”
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Pantoea eucrina: Catheter‐Related Bloodstream Infection in a Woman With Short Bowel Syndrome by Ida Saksenborg Kølle, Lars Vinter‐Jensen, Morten Eneberg Nielsen, Hans Linde Nielsen

“…This study presents a documented case of catheter‐related bloodstream infection caused by P. eucrina in a 60‐year‐old female receiving home parenteral nutrition. Despite presenting with only minor clinical symptoms, blood cultures from both central and peripheral sites confirmed the presence of P. eucrina, identified by matrix‐assisted laser desorption/ionization time‐of‐flight mass spectrometry (MALDI‐TOF MS) and whole‐genome sequencing. …”
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Nutritional and Pharmacological Enhancement of the Gut-Associated Lymphoid Tissue by M Keith Hanna, Kenneth A Kudsk

“…For patients who are unable to be fed by the enteral route and who require parenteral nutrition, several supplements show promise in enhancing the mucosal immune system defenses. …”
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Airway Compromise due to Retropharyngeal Emphysema–A Rare Complication of an Extravasated Peripherally Inserted Central Venous Catheter by Ana Licina

“…Intraoperatively, an un-anticipated diagnosis of extravasated peripherally inserted central venous cannula (PICC) was made. Total parenteral nutrition had extravasated into the mediastinum and thorax. …”
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Long-Term Clinical Behavior of Jejunoileal Involvement in Crohn’s Disease by Hugh J Freeman

“…Finally, most patients required long-term nutritional support, often with home parenteral nutrition. New treatments are required, possibly defined on the basis of their effectiveness in reducing the severity and extent of intestinal disease, rather than more conventional statistically driven reductions in disease activity indexes.…”
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Gastropleural Fistula as a Rare Complication of Gastric Sleeve Surgery: A Case Report and Comprehensive Literature Review by Fahad Alghanim, Ali Alkhaibary, Abdulmohsen Alzakari, Abdullah AlRumaih

“…Nonsurgical conservative management (total parenteral nutrition, percutaneous drainage, and antibiotics with endoscopic stenting) can be considered.…”
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Mediastinal Extension of a Pancreatic Pseudocyst: A Rare Intrathoracic Complication of Pancreatitis by Carol Vitellas, Ivo Besong Mangeb, Luis Regalado, Chiemezie Chianotu Amadi

“…The patient was managed conservatively in the hospital with parenteral nutrition therapy, pain control, and close imaging observation. …”
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Clinical Aspects of Trace Elements: Zinc in Human Nutrition – Zinc Deficiency and Toxicity by Michelle M Pluhator, Alan Br Thomson, Richard N Fedorak

“…Conditioned deficiencies have been reported to result from malabsorption syndromes, acrodermatitis enteropathica, alcoholism, gastrointestinal disease, thermal injury, chronic diseases (eg, diabetes, sickle cell anemia), and in total parenteral nutrition therapy. Awareness that patients with these problems are at risk has led health professionals to focus increasingly on the importance of zinc therapy in the prevention and treatment of deficiency. …”
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Wernicke-Korsakoff Syndrome following Small Bowel Obstruction by Shoumitro Deb, Richard Law-Min, David Fearnley

“…Following the operation she developed paralytic ileus and required total parenteral nutrition for one month. A suspected history of average 40 units of weekly alcohol consumption prior to the operation could not be confirmed and the patient did not show any sign of alcohol dependence. …”
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Extreme Rhabdomyolysis, Acute Renal Failure, and Protracted Ileus in a Case of Legionella Pneumonia by C. Laivier, M.-O. Bleuze, P. Hantson, J. Devos

“…No cause of mechanical obstruction was found at surgery and common etiologies of intestinal obstruction were excluded. Parenteral nutrition was needed for a total of 4 weeks, before recovery of intestinal motility. …”
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Granulomatous Osteonecrosis in Crohn’s Disease by Hugh J Freeman, David Owen, Mario Millan

“…She also received parenteral nutrition with lipid emulsions. Finally, repeated intestinal resections and drainage of perianal abscesses were required. …”
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Nutritional disorders and nutrition-related conditions: an underestimated clinical problem in systemic sclerosis by Anna Wojteczek, Michał Chmielewski, Zbigniew Zdrojewski

“…In severe cases, parenteral nutrition offers viable options to support patient health. …”
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Epidemiological Study on the Status of Nutrition-Support Therapies by Emergency Physicians in China by Chi Niu, Wei Guo, Wei Gu

“…This study aimed to investigate the current status of nutrition-support therapies by emergency physicians in China and to provide an evidence-based case to improve the regulation of enteral and parenteral nutrition-support therapies. Methods. Physicians from the Emergency Branch of the China Geriatrics Society were enrolled in the present survey. …”
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Gastro-intestinal involvement in systemic sclerosis by Saurabh Kedia, Anuj Chhaparia, Pramod Garg

“…Refractory cases require nutritional support in the form of enteral nutrition and/or home parenteral nutrition. Future research is needed in the pathogenesis, development of biomarkers for early identification of GI involvement at the asymptomatic stage, and targeted disease-modifying therapies, which can alter/halt the disease progression.…”
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Severe Gastrooesophageal Reflux Disease Associated with Foetal Alcohol Syndrome by N. K. Sujay, Matthew Jones, Emma Whittle, Helen Murphy, Marcus K. H. Auth

“…The child had failed to respond to maximal medical treatment (domperidone and omeprazole), high calorie feeds, PEG feeding, or total parenteral nutrition. The effect of alcohol on the developing foetus is not limited to the central nervous system but also can have varied and devastating effects on the gastrointestinal tract.…”
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Bilateral Chylhotorax after Falling from Height by Vildan Akpinar, Fulya Yilmaz Duran, Elif Duman, Murat Yasar Özkalkanli, Özgür Duran, Burcu Horsanali

“…Treatment can be classified into 3 categories treatment of the underlying condition, conservative management (such as bed rest, nil by mouth or low fat medium chain triglycerides by mouth and total parenteral nutrition), and surgical management by ligation or clipping of the thoracic duct with open thoracotomy or video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery. …”
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Vanishing Gastroschisis with a Favorable Outcome after a 3-Year Follow-Up: A Case Report and Literature Review by Elise Abi Rached, N. Sananes, I. Kauffmann-Chevalier, F. Becmeur

“…The child is now 3 years old and has a favorable outcome with only 2 nights a week of parenteral nutrition. A total of 39 cases of VG type D from Perrone et al. classification are described in the literature from 1991 to 2019, among which 19 (48.7%) are alive at the time of publication but only 4 cases are described with a long-term follow-up of 3 years or more. …”
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