Intestinal failure and small bowel transplantation, including clinical nutrition: Working Group Report of the Second World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
Intestinal failure and small bowel transplantation, including clinical nutrition: Working Group Report of the Second World Congress of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Hepatology, and Nutrition
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DOI:
10.1097/00005176-200406002-00012
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发表时间:
2004-01-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
Ohtsuka, Y
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作者:
Kocoshis, SA;Beath, SV;Ohtsuka, Y
Although intestinal failure can be defined by excessive fecal energy loss, a more widely accepted definition is "the inability of the gastrointestinal tract to sustain life autonomously (1). A substantial percentage of the nutrition of patients with intestinal failure must be delivered parenterally. Most patients with intestinal failure have anatomic short bowel syndrome. A lesser number have a nonfunctional intestinal tract. Intestinal failure produces great human suffering and prodigious expenditures of economic resources. A Survey based on the Oley Foundation database on total parenteral nutrition (TPN) estimated that, in 1992, approximate to40 000 North American patients were receiving chronic home parenteral nutrition (2). The average daily expenditure for adult TPN-bound patients in the 1990s was more than US $ 1000 (2). Even in a developing country such as Mexico, the annual cost Of surgical short bowel syndrome averaged US $50 000 (3). Such costs are prohibitive for the vast majority of the world's population. Approximately 15-20% of patients on chronic TPN may ultimately require a small intestinal transplant, which is estimated to cost about US $200 000 to $300 000 per patient (4). This is beyond the reach of many patients.For all of these reasons, significant efforts must be made to better understand the epidemiology of intestinal failure and short bowel syndrome. We Must implement strategies to reduce the incidence of intestinal failure, to lower the cost of intestinal transplantation and to improve its availability, and to further basic and translational research on nontransplantation therapies of short bowel syndrome. General physicians and surgeons who take care of children will benefit from additional education in the recognition of intestinal failure and of TPN-related complications of intestinal failure. Finally, development of cadres of superspecialized gastroenterologists and Surgeons who are experts in all phases of nutritional rehabilitation, including medical management of intestinal failure, nontransplantation surgical therapies, and small intestinal transplantation, is essential. Only with proper education of all members of the healthcare team can ongoing advances in research be translated into improvements in patient care.