Disease relevance of Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• BACKGROUND & AIMS: Controversy surrounds a 3-week treatment with a high-dose (0.14 mg. kg(-1). day(-1)) growth hormone (GH), glutamine, and high carbohydrate diet in home parenteral nutrition (HPN)-dependent patients with short-bowel syndrome (SBS) [1].
• Treatment of Crohn's disease with home parenteral nutrition [2].
• Severe cholestasis associated with long-term home parenteral nutrition is rare, and no treatment is known to be effective [3].
• Prevalence of liver disease and contributing factors in patients receiving home parenteral nutrition for permanent intestinal failure [4].
• Home parenteral nutrition in treatment of severe radiation enteritis [5].

Psychiatry related information on Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• Patient compliance with a home parenteral nutrition program [6].
• Growing with home parenteral nutrition: adjusting to family life and child development (Part 1 of a two-part series) [7].

High impact information on Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• Biotin deficiency in an adult during home parenteral nutrition [8].
• Selenium deficiency and fatal cardiomyopathy in a patient on home parenteral nutrition [9].
• Liver disease and home parenteral nutrition [10].
• OBJECTIVE: The objectives were to evaluate accurate indexes of manganese status and elucidate the optimal manganese dose to be administered to adult patients undergoing home parenteral nutrition [11].
• OBJECTIVE: We investigated lipid peroxidation and antioxidant status in patients receiving home parenteral nutrition (HPN) providing variable amounts of a lipid emulsion rich in PUFAs, and alpha-tocopherol, zinc, copper, and manganese as recommended by the American Medical Association, and no selenium [12].

Chemical compound and disease context of Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• Biotin deficiency in a patient with short bowel syndrome during home parenteral nutrition [13].
• A new gamma-linolenic acid-enriched fat emulsion (PFE 4501) was given for 13 mo as part of a home parenteral nutrition regimen to a 28-yr-old patient with cystic fibrosis [14].
• A 6-yr-old boy with systemic histoplasmosis received intravenous amphotericin B for two months as an outpatient utilizing techniques developed for home parenteral nutrition [15].

Biological context of Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• Lipid peroxidation and antioxidant status in adults receiving lipid-based home parenteral nutrition [12].
• Determining total energy expenditure (TEE) and its components in children treated with home parenteral nutrition (CHPN) under free-living conditions is an important consideration in the assessment of energy requirements and the maintenance of health [16].
• Bone mineral density in patients on home parenteral nutrition: a follow-up study [17].
• Body composition in patients on home parenteral nutrition [18].

Anatomical context of Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• The time course for the depletion of red blood cell (RBC) and plasma glutathione peroxidase (GSHPx) activity in five patients receiving home parenteral nutrition was documented [19].
• One hundred and six patients were placed on a home parenteral nutrition program because of severe gastrointestinal tract lesions [20].
• Bone marrow transplantation should be considered and reserved for those patients with severe complications due to home parenteral nutrition, or in those that are really dependent on parenteral nutrition [21].

Associations of Parenteral Nutrition, Home with chemical compounds

• Home parenteral nutrition [22].
• The optimal dose of manganese may be 1 micromol/d for adult patients undergoing home parenteral nutrition [11].
• Ascorbic acid, thiamin, niacin, pyridoxine, and folic acid status was evaluated in eight physiologically stable home parenteral nutrition patients [23].
• We studied the effects of intravenous L-carnitine on the metabolism of fatty acids, ketone bodies, glucose, and branched-chain amino acids in four normal volunteers and four patients on long-term home parenteral nutrition (HPN) with low plasma carnitine concentrations [24].
• Nine home parenteral-nutrition (HPN) patients received added Se in intravenous solutions and were compared with 10 normal control subjects [25].

Gene context of Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• Pentane, plasma alpha-tocopherol (alpha-tox) and plasma gamma-tocopherol (gamma-toc), selenium, and Se-dependent glutathione peroxidase (Se-GSHPx) were measured in 10 normal control subjects and in 10 home parenteral nutrition (HPN) patients before and after infusion of 100 mL Nutralipid 10% over 30 min [26].
• Home parenteral nutrition and vitamin B12 status [27].
• The effect of the somatostatin analogue, octreotide (100 micrograms TID, subcutaneously) in reducing requirements was measured in 10 patients established on home parenteral nutrition [28].

Analytical, diagnostic and therapeutic context of Parenteral Nutrition, Home

• SUMMARY BACKGROUND DATA: Segmental reversal of the small bowel could be seen as an acceptable alternative to intestinal transplantation in patients with very short bowel syndrome deemed to be dependent on home parenteral nutrition [29].
• Of the remaining 18 patients, eight were nutritionally independent of supplements, two had gastrostomy or jejunostomy feeds, and eight were receiving home parenteral nutrition [30].
• Osteoporosis in patients on long-term home parenteral nutrition: a longitudinal study [31].
• A 9-year-old boy with a 5-year history of severe protracted diarrhea requiring home parenteral nutrition and a 1 year history of abnormal liver function tests was admitted for duodenal, rectal, and liver biopsy [32].
• Laparotomy for partial small bowel obstruction with resection of the involved segment was complicated by enterocutaneous fistulae, which improved only on cessation of oral intake and treatment with home parenteral nutrition [33].

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