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Biochemical Parameters in Extremely Preterm Infants Receiving Mixed Lipid Emulsions

Lauren H Peck, Pavel Prusakov, Ethan A Mezoff

    The Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics : JPPT : the Official Journal of PPAG
    |November 18, 2021
    PubMed
    Summary

    Soybean-fish oil emulsion (SMOF) increased DHA and EPA in preterm infants but did not cause essential fatty acid deficiency. Growth declined, potentially due to necrotizing enterocolitis, not SMOF.

    Keywords:
    docosahexaenoic acidessential fatty acid deficiencygrowthmixed lipid emulsionsnecrotizing enterocolitisparenteral nutritionpreterm infants

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