[Nutritional support of premature newborn infants with birthweight below 1.500 g].
16 preterm babies with birthweights between 738 and 1,390 g (mean: 1,105. SD: +/- 176.7) and with gestational ages between 27 and 31 weeks (mean: 29.5. SD: +/- 1.32), were fed according to a combined scheme: parenteral nutrition, for a period of 12 days, plus enteral feedings of chemically defined diet, given by nasogastric tube through a continuous infusion, until the 35th week of postconceptional age. All 16 babies had a satisfactory course, with no significant side-effects. Their weight gain was between 9 and 22 g/day (mean: 13.8. SD: +/- 4.2). No significant blood biochemical abnormalities were detected. Our results showed that this combined feeding scheme (enteral & parenteral) worked satisfactorily in this group of newborn premature babies.
Castillo Salinas
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Departamento de Pediatría, Hospital Materno Infantil Valle de Hebrón, Barcelona.
Salcedo Abizanda
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S
Fina Martí
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A
Almar Mendoza
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J
Tokumura
N T
NT
Abellán Sastre
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C
Salmerón Caro
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F
Peguero Monforte
G
G
D001724:Birth Weight; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006801:Humans; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature / Q000502:physiology*; D007441:Intubation, Gastrointestinal; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition; D013030:Spain
Aporte nutritivo en recién nacidos prematuros de peso inferior a 1.500 g.