Parenteral nutrition at home
Pertkiewicz, M.; Majewska, K.; Szczygieł, B.
Polski Tygodnik Lekarski 50(40-44): 45-47; 52
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0032-3756 PMID: 8650059 Document Number: 446612
Development of home parenteral nutrition (HPN) allowed for long term survival for patients with chronic intestinal failure, followed mainly total or near total small bowel resection. Own 11 years long experience with 49 HPN patients treated for 98 patients years with a HPN model adapted to polish conditions is presented. Long term survival (4 patients over 10 years) and low complications rate, comparable to reported from West European countries and USA, shows HPN possible in Poland and developed HPN model is efficient and safe method of life-restoring therapy with long term survival of patients with severe disturbances of absorption otherwise leading to death by starvation.