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Total parenteral nutrition in Crohn's disease

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A personal experience involving use of total parenteral nutrition in 115 patients with Crohn's disease is reported from a medical unit. Remission occurred without surgery in 24 patients. The regimen was considered to have failed in its objectives in 50 patients, and complications were recorded in 57.

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Dans une unité médico-chirurgicale, la nutrition parentérale totale a été appliquée à 115 cas de maladie de Crohn. Chez 24 patients, une rémission a été obtenue, sans opération. Le traitement a été considéré comme un échec dans 50 cas. Il y a eu 97 complications.

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  1. Department of Gastroenterology, University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands

    L. P. Bos M.D. & Irene T. Weterman M.D.

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Bos, L.P., Weterman, I.T. Total parenteral nutrition in Crohn's disease. World J. Surg. 4, 163–165 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02393567

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