BACKGROUND The purpose of this retrospective study was to analyse the occurrence of gastrointestinal side effects in enterally fed ITU patients. METHODS We analysed the records of 195 ITU patients fed enterally, over at least five days, with commercial mixtures administered as 20-h infusions. Gastric retention, the number of defecations, and incidents requiring discontinuation of enteral feed...

introduction: the incidence of malnutrition in hospitalized patients is reported to be high. in particular, patients with esophageal cancer are prone to malnutrition, due to preoperative digestive system dysfunctions and short-term non-oral feeding postoperatively. selection of an appropriate method for feeding in the postoperative period is important in these patients.   materials and methods:...

Nutrition accrual on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is the need of hour. The crescendo interest in nutrition optimization ECMO comes wake recent American Society for Parenteral and Enternal (ASPEN) guidelines pediatric patients.[1] Due to technical hazards ECMO, presence a multitude inotropes, hemodynamic perturbations, risk ischemic bowel, association with therapy controversial.[2]...

Conventional wisdom has previously dictated that, in order to avoid stimulation of pancreatic secretion during acute pancreatitis, and thus avoid the perpetuation of the enzymatic activation from which the pancreatitis originated, enteral feeding should be avoided. With greater understanding of the potential role of the gastrointestinal tract in the development of a systemic inflammatory respon...

Children are unique as their food intake must provide sufficient nutrients not only for the maintenance of body tissues but also for growth. Improvements in techniques for nutritional support has resulted in very long term parenteral nutrition being available for those with chronic intestinal failure in addition to those who require short term parenteral feeding either following surgery or whil...

Total parenteral nutrition (TPN) has become a mainstay of modern neonatal care for the increasing population of premature infants who survive their initial pulmonary disease. As with other advances in neonatal therapy, hyperalimentation has associated complications and limitations, primary among them its toxicity to the liver. The basic pathologic lesion is bile cholestasis which is probably mu...

Gastrointestinal tract is one of the major systems affected by graft-versus-host disease (GVHD). Injury to the gut during conditioning therapy before stem-cell transplantation (SCT) plays a pivotal role in the initiation of inflammatory stimuli. We reviewed medical records of the patients who underwent SCT between April 2010 and June 2013 in our center. A stepwise upgrade diet was given to the ...