Siddhartha M Oke, Jeremy M Nightingale, Suzanne C Donnelly, Mani Naghibi, James Willsmore, David A J Lloyd, Simon M Gabe
BACKGROUND AND AIMS: Patients with intestinal failure often need long-term home parenteral support (PS). We aimed to determine how the underlying diagnosis, complications and survival had changed over the last 36 years in the UK's largest IF centre. METHODS: 978 adult home PS patient records were analysed from January 1979 until October 2016. The age, sex, underlying aetiology, complications and survival was compared over 5-year periods. RESULTS: Pre-1990 to 2011-2016, numbers increased from 29 to 451, the mean age of patients increased from 31 ± 16...
September 9, 2021: Clinical Nutrition