Feeding intolerance in the preterm infant

Early Human Development

Volumn 89, Issue SUPPL2, 2013, Pages

  Fanaro, Silvia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Enteral feeding; Feeding intolerance; Gastric residual; Preterm

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE; CARBOHYDRATE; CISAPRIDE; DIATRIZOATE; DOMPERIDONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; GLYCEROL; LACTOSE; METOCLOPRAMIDE; MILK PROTEIN; OLIGOSACCHARIDE; PROBIOTIC AGENT; SHORT CHAIN FATTY ACID; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL DISTENSION; ARTICLE; BREAST MILK; CALORIC INTAKE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLON FLORA; CONTINUOUS BOLUS FEEDING; DIET RESTRICTION; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTERIC FEEDING; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; FEEDING DISORDER; FEEDING INTOLERANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT FUNCTION; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; HIGH RISK INFANT; HUMAN; HYPERTRANSAMINASEMIA; HYPERTROPHIC PYLORUS STENOSIS; IMMATURITY; INFANT FEEDING; INTERMITTENT BOLUS FEEDING; INTESTINE MOTILITY; INTRAVENOUS FEEDING; LACTOBACILLUS REUTERI; LOW DRUG DOSE; LOWER ESOPHAGUS SPHINCTER; MECONIUM ILEUS; NOSE FEEDING; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PARENTERAL NUTRITION; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREDICTIVE VALUE; PREMATURITY; QT PROLONGATION; SEPTICEMIA; STOMACH ACID SECRETION; STOMACH EMPTYING; STOMACH MOTILITY; STOMACH TUBE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; VOMITING;

ENTERAL FEEDING; FEEDING INTOLERANCE; GASTRIC RESIDUAL; PRETERM;

ENTERAL NUTRITION; FOOD DEPRIVATION; FOOD, FORTIFIED; HUMANS; INFANT, EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, VERY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; MILK, HUMAN; NEONATOLOGY; PROBIOTICS;

EID: 84885850857     PISSN: 03783782     EISSN: 18726232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2013.07.013     Document Type: Article

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