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Nutritional management of a patient with short-bowel syndrome and large-volume jejunostomy output
1Department of Internal Medicine, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0764.
Nutrition (Burbank, Los Angeles County, Calif.)
|January 1, 1994
Abstract:
Nutritional therapy of a patient with approximately 100 cm of remaining jejunum, severe malabsorption, and high jejunostomy output is presented. A high-calorie diet, oral rehydration therapy, and vitamin and mineral supplementation were used effectively to maintain a reasonable nutritional state without the need for long-term intravenous therapy.