Nutritional support, via modified oral feeding, enteral, or parenteral nutrition, is key to halting chronic intestinal pseudoobstruction-related malnutrition.
This multicenter randomized study compared the administration of synbiotics combined with enteral nutrition versus that of prophylactic antibiotics as supportive care treatment for patients with esophageal cancer undergoing neoadjuvant chemotherapy.
We present a patient case and review the diagnosis, treatment and prognosis of acute pancreatitis.
Case study of a 22-year-old man presented for acute epigastric pain associated with aqueous diarrhea, vomiting and sustained fever.
The review aims to summarize the current literature on short bowel syndrome epidemiology, pathophysiology, and its surgical and medical management with emphasis on the recent advances.
Objectives were to assess whether a 24-hour length of hospitalization and antibiotic therapy to exclude central line-associated bloodstream infection in children with intestinal failure is potentially as safe as common practice of 48 hours.
The relationship between the duration of antibiotic administration during first week of life and subsequent growth velocity.
The compatibility of fat emulsion with antibiotics in piggyback infusions regarding the size distribution of the fat particles.