Influence of nutrition therapy on the intestinal microbiome. [Review]

Krezalek MA; Yeh A; Alverdy JC; Morowitz M.
Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition & Metabolic Care

Relationship between nutritional therapies and augmentation of the intestinal environment to facilitate growth of beneficial microorganisms, strengthening of colonization resistance, and maintaining immune homeostasis.

Vitamin D status of gastrostomy-fed children with special needs: a cross-sectional pilot study.

Kuter H; Das G; Mughal MZ.
Acta Paediatrica

To assess the vitamin D status of 32 gastrostomy-fed children aged five to 16 years. Assessments were made with serum concentrations of 25-hydroxyvitamin D.

Outcome prediction in gastroschisis - The gastroschisis prognostic score (GPS) revisited.

Puligandla PS; Baird R; Skarsgard ED; Emil S; Laberge JM; Canadian Pediatric Surgery Network (CAPSNet)
Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Revalidation of GPS's characterization of a high morbidity group and quantification relationships between the GPS and outcomes.

Alcoholic hepatitis: current trends in management. [Review]

Aday AW; Mitchell MC; Casey LC.
Current Opinion in Gastroenterology

Discussion of the current challenges in the diagnosis and management of alcoholic hepatitis.

Nutritional route in oesophageal resection trial II (NUTRIENT II): study protocol for a multicentre open-label randomised controlled trial.

Berkelmans GH; Wilts BJ; Kouwenhoven EA; Kumagai K; Nilsson M; Weijs TJ; Nieuwenhuijzen GA; van Det MJ; Luyer MD.
BMJ Open

Investigation the effects of early versus delayed start of oral intake on postoperative recovery following esophagectomy.

Gastrostomy in patients with prion disease

Iwasaki Y; Mori K; Ito M; Kawai Y; Hoshino KI; Kawabata Y; Mimuro M; Yoshida M.
Prion

Study of three patients with prion post-gastrostomy.

Growth and morbidity of extremely preterm infants after early full enteral nutrition.

Maas C; Franz AR; von Krogh S; Arand J; Poets CF.
Archives of Disease in Childhood Fetal & Neonatal Edition

Evaluation of the feasibility and consequences of accelerated feeding advancement on short-term outcomes in extremely low gestational age neonates.

Letter: [Reply] reproducible evidence shows that exclusive enteral nutrition significantly reduces faecal calprotectin concentrations in children with active Crohn's disease-Authors'

Feathers A, et al, Dai C, et al.,
Aliment Pharmacol Ther.

Two group's reply

Letter: Reproducible evidence shows that exclusive enteral nutrition significantly reduces faecal calprotectin concentrations in children with active Crohn's disease.

Logan M; Ijaz UZ; Hansen R; Gerasimidis K; Russell RK.
Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics.

Comments on a single article that measured fecal calprotectin at baseline and at end of treatment in patients induced with exclusive enteral nutrition and corticosteroids.

Current Knowledge of Necrotizing Enterocolitis in Preterm Infants and the Impact of Different Types of Enteral Nutrition Products

Shulhan J; Dicken B; Hartling L; Larsen BM.
Advances in Nutrition

This review summarizes the known factors that contribute NEC, health care cost implications, and impact of different formulas and milk sources.