Nutritional support in elderly

نویسندگان

  • Maria D'Angelo
  • Raffaele Lanteri
  • Laurachiara Ventura
  • Marco Santangelo
  • Guido Azzarello
  • Antonio Licata
چکیده

Artificial nutrition includes: enteral nutrition, and parenteral nutrition. Total parenteral nutrition aims at making up for nutritional deficiency caused by both insufficient oral nutrition due to anorexia and obstruction of the gastro-enteric tube or derived from a digestive inefficacy due to a deficiency in the digestive process of assimilation. Enteral nutrition is destined to elderly patients that can't eat normally.

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عنوان ژورنال:

دوره 9  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2009