An innovative educational program for adolescents on home parenteral nutrition for the "transition" to adulthood.

Unlabelled: Facing with an increasing demand for transition to adult care management, our home parenteral nutrition (HPN) team designed an adolescent therapeutic educational program (ATEP) specifically intended for adolescents on long-term HPN. The aim of this study was to report on the first sessions of this program.

Methods: The ATEP is designed in three sessions of five consecutive days, during school holidays over the year.

Pediatric Intestinal Failure Associated Eating Disorder: An Overview of the Importance of Oral Feeding in a Population at Risk for Feeding Difficulties.

Achieving feeding skills and food acceptance is a multi-layered process. In pediatric intestinal failure (PIF), oral feeding is important for feeding skills development, physiologic adaptation, quality of life and the prevention of eating disorders. In PIF, risk factors for feeding difficulties are common and early data suggests that feeding difficulties are prevalent.

An Overview of Parenteral Nutrition from Birth to Adolescence Based on a Composite Fish Oil Containing Lipid Emulsion and a Pediatric Amino Acid Solution.

Intestinal failure (IF) is characterized by a critical reduction in functional gut mass below the minimum needed for optimal growth in children. It requires parenteral nutrition (PN) and home-PN (HPN), which is challenging in terms of meeting nutritional needs according to age, growth velocity, clinical situation, and rapid changes in fluid and electrolyte requirements. Due to these complex requirements, age-adapted multi-chamber bags (MCBs) are important additions to the nutrition armamentarium.

Long-term treatment with teduglutide: a 48-week open-label single-center clinical trial in children with short bowel syndrome.

Background: Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is the main cause of intestinal failure in children.

Objectives: This single-center study evaluated the safety and efficacy of teduglutide in pediatric patients with SBS-associated intestinal failure (SBS-IF).

Methods: Children with SBS followed at our center with ≥2 y on parenteral nutrition (PN) and with small bowel length <80 cm who had reached a plateau were consecutively included in the study.

Nutrition and Intestinal Rehabilitation of Children With Short Bowel Syndrome: A Position Paper of the ESPGHAN Committee on Nutrition. Part 1: From Intestinal Resection to Home Discharge.

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is the leading cause of intestinal failure (IF) in children. The mainstay of treatment for IF is parenteral nutrition (PN). The aim of this position paper is to review the available evidence on managing SBS and to provide practical guidance to clinicians dealing with this condition.