Increasing calories, decreasing morbidity and mortality: Is improved nutrition the answer to better outcomes in patients with biliary atresia?

Hepatology

Volumn 46, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1329-1331

  Carter Kent, Christine ^a   Radhakrishnan, Kadakkal ^a   Feldstein, Ariel E ^a  

^a LERNER RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT ATRESIA; CALORIC INTAKE; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LIVER GRAFT REJECTION; LIVER TRANSPLANTATION; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NOSE FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; PORTOENTEROSTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; ARM CIRCUMFERENCE; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DISEASE COURSE; END STAGE LIVER DISEASE; FAILURE TO THRIVE; GROWTH DISORDER; GROWTH RATE; NASOGASTRIC TUBE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; SKINFOLD THICKNESS; STOMACH TUBE; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BILIARY ATRESIA; GROWTH DISORDERS; HUMANS; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

BILIRUBIN; MEDIUM CHAIN TRIACYLGLYCEROL;

EID: 36348974506     PISSN: 02709139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hep.22043     Document Type: Editorial

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