This study evaluates variation in oral feeding intake after enteral nutrition initiation, and to identify factors influencing oral feeding.
Malnutrition in children and young adults undergoing blood and marrow transplantation increases morbidity and mortality. The optimization of enteral nutrition can potentially improve outcomes.
This is a retrospective, single-center study, medical records of very young children with severe developmental disabilities, comparing growth parameters, GI symptoms, oral feeding, and GI medication use between the initial introduction of blenderized tube feeding and again at the last patient encounter.
The purpose of this review is to summarize existing medical literature related to nutrition requirements, nutrition status, and nutrition support after pediatric intestinal transplantation.
This article summarizes the literature and collects the opinion of eight experts on the use of fiber-containing enteral formulas in pediatrics.
The objectives of the study were to collect data on physical activity and body composition in children with intestinal failure, both parenterally and enterally fed, and to assess the relationship between physical activity and body composition.
The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of essential fatty acid deficiency in patients with intestinal failure who are parenteral nutrition dependent without lipid restriction.
We identified lack of consistency in dietitian evaluations for our pediatric patients receiving home enteral nutrition. We underwent a quality improvement initiative to improve rates of adherence to standard frequency of dietitian consults and referrals among patients receiving home enteral nutrition.
A 17-year-old male with spinal muscular atrophy Type 1, tracheostomy with ventilator dependent, gastrostomy tube feeding was seen by the gastroenterologist following treatment for small intestinal bacterial overgrowth.
We synthesized evidence from systematic reviews to evaluate the effects of early enteral feeding on outcomes in preterm infants.