CONTEXT There is controversy concerning the merits of enteral and parenteral nutrition in the management of patients with severe acute pancreatitis. OBJECTIVE This study was undertaken to evaluate the effect of enteral nutrition versus parenteral nutrition on serum markers of inflammation and outcome in patients with severe acute pancreatitis. SETTING Tertiary care centre in North India. ...

Nutritional insufficiency, leading to early growth deficits has long-lasting effects, including short stature and poor neurodevelopmental outcomes. Early enteral feeding is commonly limited by immaturity of gastrointestinal motor function in preterm neonates. To ensure that a stressed premature infant receives an adequate but not excessive amount of glucose, the amount of carbohydrate delivered...

Total parenteral nutrition provides nutrition by infusion into the systemic circulation. Bypassing the intestine and processes associated with absorption can cause additional pathophysiological changes to occur. For example, in rats, normal gut and pancreatic cell function may change, absorptive capacity may be altered, and enzyme functional activity including drug metabolism may be affected. T...

Artificial nutrition includes: enteral nutrition, and parenteral nutrition. Total parenteral nutrition aims at making up for nutritional deficiency caused by both insufficient oral nutrition due to anorexia and obstruction of the gastro-enteric tube or derived from a digestive inefficacy due to a deficiency in the digestive process of assimilation. Enteral nutrition is destined to elderly patie...

OBJECTIVE: Aluminum is a contaminant in all parenteral nutrition solutions. Manufacturers currently label these products with the maximum aluminum content at the time of expiry, but there are no published data to establish the actual measured concentration of aluminum in parenteral nutrition solution products prior to being compounded in the clinical setting. This investigation assessed quantit...

Enteral nutrition is the process of nourishing a patient with a liquid diet of defined composition, usually given through a nasogastric, nasointestinal, gastrostomy, or jejunostomy tube. Parenteral nutrition is the administration of nutrients directly into the bloodstream through a central venous catheter or by peripheral infusion. When the only source of nutrient intake is via the parenteral r...

BACKGROUND Home parenteral nutrition is established as standard management for patients with chronic severe intestinal failure. Although the treatment is welcomed by many patients, there are psychological consequences of living with a central venous catheter and there are associated restrictions to the lives of patients on home parenteral nutrition. A subgroup of home parenteral nutrition patie...

Pulmonary candidiasis is a rare condition that usually occurs in severely ill patients with underlying immunosuppression. The clinical diagnosis is very rarely confirmed in vivo by lung biopsy.' Total parenteral nutrition is an increasingly common technique for the management ofpatients with intestinal failure. Catheter related sepsis occurs in 2-11% of patients treated by total parenteral nutr...