Nutritional therapy of hospitalized patients with inflammatory bowel disease.
The use of total parenteral nutrition and enteral nutrition in inflammatory bowel disease has become commonplace. Except for well-documented improvements in nutritional parameters, the efficacy of these treatments for primary therapy or for complications remains largely unproven.
D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D003093:Colitis, Ulcerative / Q000628:therapy*; D003424:Crohn Disease / Q000628:therapy*; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005526:Food, Formulated; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D010289:Parenteral Nutrition, Total; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012189:Retrospective Studies