Pediatric short bowel syndrome and subsequent development of inflammatory bowel disease: an illustrative case and literature review

Baxter KJ; Srinivasan JK; Ziegler TR; Dhere T; Ricketts RR; Durham MM.
Pediatric Surgery International

Case report of an adult survivor of Short Bowel Syndrome born with complicated gastroschisis and subsequently developed symptoms and pathologic changes of inflammatory
bowel disease..

A Review of Dysphagia Presentation and Intervention Following Traumatic Spinal Injury: An Understudied Population. [Review]

Valenzano TJ; Waito AA; Steele CM.
Dysphagia

A review to determine the characteristics of dysphagia in patients after traumatic spinal injury and to describe standard interventions to improve swallowing function in this population.

Oral Feeding Outcome in Infants with a Tracheostomy

Joseph RA; Evitts P; Bayley EW; Tulenko C.
Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Study to provide guidance for feeding infants with a tracheostomy in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Revisiting nutritional support for allogeneic hematologic stem cell transplantation-a systematic review. [Review]

Baumgartner A; Bargetzi A; Zueger N; Bargetzi M; Medinger M; Bounoure L; Gomes F; Stanga Z; Mueller B; Schuetz P.
Bone Marrow Transplantation

Results of MEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane Library study searches regarding nutritional support of patients with hematologic stem cell transplantation.

Current Practices in Home Management of Nasogastric Tube Placement in Pediatric Patients: A Survey of Parents and Homecare Providers

Northington L; Lyman B; Guenter P; Irving SY; Duesing L.
Journal of Pediatric Nursing

Study of pediatric nasogastric/orogastric placement, comparing homecare providers with patient's parents.

Transthyretin Concentrations in Acute Stroke Patients Predict Convalescent Rehabilitation

Isono N; Imamura Y; Ohmura K; Ueda N; Kawabata S; Furuse M; Kuroiwa T.
Journal of Stroke & Cerebrovascular Diseases

Analysis of the relationship between the transthyretin levels and Functional Independence Measure in stroke patients undergoing rehabilitation.

Impact of qualitative and quantitative variations in nitrogen supply on catch-up growth in food-deprived-refed young rats

Bortolotti M; Ventura G; Jegatheesan P; Choisy C; Cynober L; De Bandt JP.
Clinical Nutrition

Study of young rats after 48 hour fast and their recovery on peptide- and whole protein-containing diets versus partially hydrolyzed proteins.

Serum trace elements in dysphagic gastrostomy candidates before endoscopic gastrostomy for long term enteral feeding

Santos CA; Fonseca J; Carolino E; Guerreiro AS
Clinical Nutrition

Prospective anaylsis of serum trace elements in dysphagic gastrostomy candidates before endoscopic gastrostomy and recommendations for caregivers to such patients after procedure.

Gastric feeding intolerance is not caused by mucosal ischemia measured by intragastric air tonometry in the critically ill.

Streefkerk JO; Beishuizen A; Groeneveld AB.
Clinical Nutrition

The aim of the study is to discover the effect of gastric mucosal ischemia to intolerance to early gastric feeding in the critically ill.

Route of nutrition and risk of blood stream infections in critically ill patients; a comparative study.

Gavri C; Kokkoris S; Vasileiadis I; Oeconomopoulou AC; Kotanidou A; Nanas S; Routsi C.
Clinical Nutrition ESPEN

To determine what effect the route of delivery of nutritional support has to risk of bloodstream infection in critically ill patients.