[Metabolic imbalance during total parenteral nutrition. Experience in subjects with degenerative neurological...

Various metabolic disturbances (hydroelectrolytic and basic acid imbalances, hypo- and hyper- glycaemia etc.) are among the possible complications of N.P.T. A comparative statistical study of similar patients undergoing N.P.T. and others not so treated demonstrates that far from stimulating metabolic disturbances, N.P.T. is able to reduce the incidence of such conditions.