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Nutrition in Congenital Heart Disease: Challenges, Guidelines, and Nutritional Support

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Infants and children with congenital heart disease have high energy requirement, poor intake, and are frequently malnourished. Delivering adequate nutrition is challenging, and may be constrained by fluid limitation, feeding intolerance, gut hypoperfusion secondary to low cardiac output and heart failure, hypoxemia, or ductal dependent blood supply. Nutrition intervention, with close tolerance monitoring, is safe, and is essential to optimize nutrition status, and reduce morbidity and mortality.

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  1. Department of Clinical Nutrition, Children’s Hospital Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

    Piyagarnt E. Vichayavilas, Heather E. Skillman & Nancy F. Krebs

  2. Section of Nutrition, Department of Pediatrics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, CO, USA

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  1. Children’s Hospital Colorado University of Colorado Denver, School of, Aurora, CO, USA

    Eduardo M. da Cruz

  2. Children's Hospital Colorado University of Colorado School of Medicin, Aurora, CO, USA

    Dunbar Ivy

  3. Department of Cardiac Surgery, German Pediatric Heart Center, Sankt Augustin, Germany

    Viktor Hraska

  4. Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Children's Hospital Colorado University of Colorado, Aurora, CO, USA

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Vichayavilas, P.E., Skillman, H.E., Krebs, N.F. (2021). Nutrition in Congenital Heart Disease: Challenges, Guidelines, and Nutritional Support. In: da Cruz, E.M., Ivy, D., Hraska, V., Jaggers, J. (eds) Pediatric and Congenital Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery and Intensive Care. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4999-6_164-2

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