[Integral intravenous feeding in pediatric surgery]

Forty newborns bearing several gastrointestinal conditions (congenital malformations, intestinal bypass, postinflammatory obstruction, malabsorption and enteritis) were treated with long-term integral parenteral nutrition. A solution made up of synthetic aminoacids, emulsion of lipids, glucose, electrolytes, vitamins, plasma and whole blood was perfused through a catheter introduced into central or peripheral veins. Temporal glucosuria and anemia were observed in some cases. In all but three cases urinary alpha amino nitrogen was normal. In some infected patients leucocytosis or leucopenia was found. After treatment, all patients showed adequate nutritional conditions, manifested by increase in body weight and healing of damaged tissues.