Transpyloric feeding

Parenteral nutrition compared with transpyloric feeding.

Fifty nine infants of birthweight less than 1500 g were allocated alternately to initial total parenteral nutrition or to transpyloric feeding. Mortality was similar between the two groups. Ten of the 29 infants in the transpyloric group failed to establish full enteral nutrition during the first week of life. No beneficial effects on growth were shown in infants receiving parenteral nutrition....

Transpyloric feeding in small preterm infants.

Wolfsdorf, J., Makarawa, S., Fernandes, C., Fenner, A. (1975). Archives of Disease in Childhood, 50, 723. Transpyloric feeding in small preterm infants. In 20 preterm infants, birthweight ranging from 775 to 1540 g, transpyloric feeding was carried out using expressed human milk as the sole nutrient (study group). 10 further infants, birthweight range 910-1500 g, were also fed with human milk v...

Upper intestinal bacterial flora during transpyloric feeding.

Samples from the pharynx, stomach, duodenum or jejunum, and faeces were collected on 7 days between 1st and 28th day from neonates weighing less than 1.5 kg at birth who were fed by transpyloric tube. These were cultured on selective and non-selective media, and the results were expressed in a semi-quantitative manner. The number of bacterial species and the density of their growth increased wi...

Transpyloric feeding in infants undergoing intensive care.

Transpyloric feeding in 49 infants undergoing intensive care.

The use of transpyloric feeding in 46 very ill newborn infants requiring assisted ventilation was evaluated. It was found to be a simple and well-tolerated technique. A possible complication of significance was necrotising enterocolitis in 4 infants. Transpyloric tube feeding in 3 infants with treated upper small-bowel atresia is also described.