Nutrition support after intestinal transplantation: How important is enteral feeding?

Current Opinion in Clinical Nutrition and Metabolic Care

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 186-189

  Colomb, Virginie ^a   Goulet, Olivier ^a  

^a HÔPITAL NECKER ENFANTS MALADES   (France)

Author keywords

Enteral feeding; Fat malabsorption; Food allergy; Intestinal transplantation; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

FOOD ANTIGEN; GLUTAMINE;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; ASCITES; CATCH UP GROWTH; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENTEROPATHY; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTESTINE ABSORPTION; INTESTINE FUNCTION; INTESTINE TRANSPLANTATION; MALABSORPTION; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; FOOD, FORMULATED; HUMANS; INTESTINAL ABSORPTION; INTESTINES; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 61949254078     PISSN: 13631950     EISSN: 15353885     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MCO.0b013e328323280f     Document Type: Review

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