Nutritional Management of Intestinal Failure
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 December 2019) | Viewed by 13175
Special Issue Editors
Interests: congenital diarrheal disorders; intestinal failure; intestinal transplantation; home parenteral nutrition; pediatric gastroenterology
Interests: evidence-based guideline development; functional gastrointestinal diseases; intestinal failure; home parenteral nutrition
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The main cause of intestinal failure (IF) in both adults and children is short bowel syndrome (SBS), which occurs after an extensive small bowel resection. Intestinal adaptation is the natural compensatory process that occurs after bowel resection. By effecting structural and functional changes, this process improves nutrient and fluid absorption in the remnant small bowel. Although not possible in all patients, the ultimate goal is to wean patients off parenteral nutrition (PN) by stimulating the intestinal adaptation, while ensuring adequate nutritional status and preventing complications. Many factors affect the process of adaptation, such as age of the patient, remaining small bowel length, the presence of the ileocecal valve and colon, and the underlying disease. Stimulating the remaining bowel with enteral nutrition (EN) can enhance adaptation. The aim of this Special Issue is to provide the newest insights about the nutritional strategies that best promote intestinal adaptation.
This Special Issue of Nutrients, entitled “Nutritional Management of Intestinal Failure”, welcomes the submission of original research on observational and intervention studies, systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and studies on nutritional management of intestinal failure in children and adults. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
- Enteral and parenteral feeding strategies in intestinal failure;
- Lipid management in parenteral nutrition;
- Complications in parenteral feeding;
- Management of vascular access for parenteral nutrition;
- Enteral nutrition to promote adaptation;
- Predicting enteral autonomy;
- The role of the microbiomes in enteral autonomy;
- Pharmacological management to improve enteral autonomy;
- The role for a nutrition support team in intestinal failure.
Dr. Edmond Rings
Dr. Merit Tabbers
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Enteral autonomy
- Enteral nutrition
- Home parenteral nutrition
- Intestinal failure
- Parenteral nutrition
- Vascular access
