A short course of intravenous nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease improves respiratory and skeletal muscle function.
In malnourished patients hospitalized because of acute exacerbations of inflammatory bowel disease, a brief course of intravenous nutrition can restore skeletal and respiratory muscle function even before body protein has been repleted.
D006801:Humans; D015212:Inflammatory Bowel Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D009132:Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*; D009748:Nutrition Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000628:therapy*; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D012132:Respiratory Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology*